• Echomail Changes (Reminder)

    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Sat May 6 20:08:11 2023
    Echomail Areas Closing - Reminder #2
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    A reminder that the following echomail areas are to be retired and will close down effective 10 May 2023

    FSX_ESP Espanol General Chat
    FSX_DIY D.I.Y Chat, Tips + Tricks
    FSX_FOOD Food + Cooking Chat
    FSX_GARDENING Gardening Chat
    FSX_ARTS Arts + Artistic Chat
    FSX_TRANSPORT Transportation Chat (All Modes)
    FSX_SPORTS Sports Chat

    In their place a new echomail area FSX_LFE has been created. It has a 'Lifestyle' focus and acts as a catch-all for topics including Gardening, DIY, Art, Food, Travel, Transport, Sports etc.

    I encourage sysops to delink and remove from their BBS the echomail
    areas that are closing in advance of 10 May 2023. By that date
    all remaining nodes still connected to the retiring echomail areas will be manually delinked from them by your HUB admin.

    If you opt to retain the retired echomail areas on your BBS for posterity
    after 10 May 2023 that is your call, but please ensure they are set as
    'read only' for your users.

    I also encourage fsxNet sysops to look for and subscribe to the new
    FSX_LFE echomail area which has now been added to the fsxnet.na file and created at your fsxNet HUB :)

    New Echomail Areas Coming
    =========================

    Yes, further echomail areas are planned to be added. I will be in touch by separate post with some details in the coming weeks. More to follow :)

    This message has been x-posted to FSX_GEN and FSX_NET please post any
    further discussion on this topic in FSX_NET

    Best, Paul aka Avon

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to Avon on Mon May 8 14:29:21 2023
    On 06 May 2023, Avon said the following...
    I encourage sysops to delink and remove from their BBS the echomail
    areas that are closing in advance of 10 May 2023. By that date
    all remaining nodes still connected to the retiring echomail areas will
    be manually delinked from them by your HUB admin.

    I should have time for this tonight. Do I just delete them from the BBS or do I have unsubscribe first? Never removed one. Not sure how it works. Will it delete the unused files from the BBS or do I need to manually do that?

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  • From Mike Dippel@21:4/176 to claw on Tue May 9 05:01:02 2023
    On 5/8/2023 7:34 AM, claw wrote to Avon:

    On 06 May 2023, Avon said the following...
    I encourage sysops to delink and remove from their BBS the echomail areas that are closing in advance of 10 May 2023. By that date
    all remaining nodes still connected to the retiring echomail areas will be manually delinked from them by your HUB admin.

    I should have time for this tonight. Do I just delete them from the BBS or do
    I have unsubscribe first? Never removed one. Not sure how it works. Will it
    delete the unused files from the BBS or do I need to manually do that?

    After deleting the conference areas, I went into the /msgs folder and manually deleted
    the corresponding conference area numbers to ensure there is no chance of duplication
    in case I happen to reuse that number in the future.

    Mike Dippel

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to claw on Tue May 9 23:47:45 2023

    On 08 May 2023 at 07:29a, claw pondered and said...

    I should have time for this tonight. Do I just delete them from the BBS or do I have unsubscribe first? Never removed one. Not sure how it works. Will it delete the unused files from the BBS or do I need to manually do that?

    what I would do is send a netmail to Areafix at your HUB address, use your password in the subject line. In the message body place the correct commands to de-link the echomail areas and then send that off to the HUB.

    If you're unsure what commands to use in the netmail message body use %HELP and send that off, you will get a reply back from the HUB with more help :)

    Once you know you are not going to be sent any more messages from the echomail areas that are being closed/retired I'd then go into Mystic -cfg

    head to the area that allows you add/delete/edit bases and delete the retired bases from your BBS and if prompted by Mystic also delete the data files associated with each base.

    Having done this you will be in a situation with the old echomail areas removed from your BBS and the HUB no longer sending you anything to those bases.

    Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

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  • From claw@21:1/210 to Avon on Tue May 9 14:26:15 2023
    On 09 May 2023, Avon said the following...
    what I would do is send a netmail to Areafix at your HUB address, use
    your password in the subject line. In the message body place the correct commands to de-link the echomail areas and then send that off to the HUB.

    If you're unsure what commands to use in the netmail message body use %HELP and send that off, you will get a reply back from the HUB with
    more help :)

    Once you know you are not going to be sent any more messages from the echomail areas that are being closed/retired I'd then go into Mystic -cfg

    head to the area that allows you add/delete/edit bases and delete the retired bases from your BBS and if prompted by Mystic also delete the
    data files associated with each base.

    Having done this you will be in a situation with the old echomail areas removed from your BBS and the HUB no longer sending you anything to
    those bases.


    Thank you. I shall hopefully get some time tonight to look at it.

    |23|04Dr|16|12Claw
    |16|14Sysop |12Noverdu |14BBS |20|15Radio|10@|14HTTP://Noverdu.com:88
    |16|10 Standard ports for SSH/Telnet |04 WEB|14@|12HTTP://noverdu.com:808 |20|15Global Chat, Global Messaging and Games! |16|10Ditch the Unsocial Media

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    * Origin: Noverdu BBS (21:1/210)