• -x lock out

    From Marc Lewis@1:396/45 to All on Fri May 23 00:27:53 2008
    Hello All.

    Does anyone know if there is a wildcat that can be used with the -x lock out (no post) for an echo? IOW, I'd like to make an echo read-only for everyone linked to it, except the feed of course.

    And, does the -x?:???/??? have to come _before_ or after the feed node number?

    Best regards,
    Marc

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  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to Marc Lewis on Fri May 23 14:18:24 2008
    HI Mark,

    Marc Lewis wrote in a message to All:

    Does anyone know if there is a wildcat that can be used with the -x
    lock out (no post) for an echo? IOW, I'd like to make an echo
    read-only for everyone linked to it, except the feed of course.

    Easily enough done.
    My areafix works rather nice for this. Set a unique letter key for the aera group, i.e. P. THen assign downlinks the p flag without the cap.

    when sqafix writes node addresses to echoarea lines all will have the -x flag before the addresses telling squish not to accept inbound mail in that area.

    OTher than doing it through your areafix I don't know of a way to do it globally.


    And, does the -x?:???/??? have to come _before_ or after the feed
    node number?

    Iirc the feed doesn't have the -x, but other addresses do.


    An example:

    I set a readonly echo, i.e. whitehouse to have the R flag. IN my default node groups everyone has the r flag, but, note the difference. THat's the easiest way to do it, if you have an areafix program that will do that for you. OTherwise whenever you add a downlink to that echo you'll have to manually edit
    squish.cfg to place the -x before that downlink's entry in the echoarea line.


    Regards,
    Richard
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