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    From Kevin Melillo to All on Thu Jul 31 08:07:53 2003
    I have a small problem with FastEcho that has made me move over to Gecho... BUT.. Gecho is not Y2k, so it screws up my dates.. at least I get the echomail tho... problem is this...

    When I use 'FASTECHO SCAN' it scans my board fine, gets all the messages, and puts them in a packet, which ARGUS then sees, and delivers.. all well and good... but when 'FASTECHO TOSS' is used on the other end, all the messages imported to the BBS are marked private... and only the sysop, or priveleged users can view them...

    Anyone know why this is happening?

    Armitage
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Kevin Melillo on Thu Jul 31 09:38:14 2003
    *** Quoting Kevin Melillo from a message to All ***

    I have a small problem with FastEcho that has made me move over to Gec BUT.. Gecho is not Y2k, so it screws up my dates.. at least I get th echomail tho... problem is this...

    When I use 'FASTECHO SCAN' it scans my board fine, gets all the messag
    puts them in a packet, which ARGUS then sees, and delivers.. all well good... but when 'FASTECHO TOSS' is used on the other end, all the me imported to the BBS are marked private... and only the sysop, or priv users can view them...

    Anyone know why this is happening?

    I have never seen anything like that happen before. I wonder if
    the tosser on the other end is adding the PVT bit to messages
    that it tosses into the msgbase. Do you know what tosser is in
    use at the other end and what switches are being used?

    Tttl :-),
    Al

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  • From Kevin Melillo to Alan Ianson on Thu Jul 31 10:02:29 2003
    Re: Private Flag
    By: Alan Ianson to Kevin Melillo on Thu Jul 31 2003 09:38 am

    I have never seen anything like that happen before. I wonder if
    the tosser on the other end is adding the PVT bit to messages
    that it tosses into the msgbase. Do you know what tosser is in
    use at the other end and what switches are being used?
    The tosser on the other end is the same version of FastEcho...

    When I test, and scan with GECHO, and toss at the other end with FastEcho, it works fine... only Gecho screws dates up... and when we scan with FastEcho and toss with Gecho, still the private flag, so I am thinking it has to do with the way FastEcho is using the scan command.
  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/384 to Kevin Melillo on Fri Aug 1 22:44:00 2003
    Hi! Kevin,

    In a message to All you wrote:

    good... but when 'FASTECHO TOSS' is used on the other end, all the messages imported to the BBS are marked private... and only the
    sysop, or priveleged users can view them...

    Anyone know why this is happening?

    Check the settings on the target system for: "FeSetup-->System-->Advanced Options-->New area defaults". If there's a *private* setting there it'll set new areas on the target that way.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Kevin Melillo to Paul Quinn on Fri Aug 1 13:44:59 2003
    Re: Private Flag
    By: Paul Quinn to Kevin Melillo on Fri Aug 01 2003 10:44 pm

    Check the settings on the target system for: "FeSetup-->System-->Advanced Options-->New area defaults". If there's a *private* setting there it'll se new areas on the target that way.
    Nope, no go.. New Area Defaults says n/a, which basically means I dont use it, hmm.. this is getting to be ONE hassle... what other tossers are there that I can use?