Subj : Re: Auto create FTN areas
To   : Rick V
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri May 16 2025 16:59:05

-=> Rick V wrote to Gamgee <=-

 RV> I've been testing my setup by deleting the "BBS Ads" message area in
 RV> fidonet. That area is in my areas.bbs with my uplink, and of course
 RV> backbone.na. SBBSECHO keeps treating as a passthru. I'm just trying to
 RV> figure how to get sbbsecho to "create" a new message area.

Well, how did you do it in the past?  What I do is actually create the 
new message area/echo in SCFG, and then there is a choice in each 
message group (network) to export the network information.  You can 
choose to export it to 'areas.bbs' or some other choices.  It will also 
ask you whether you want to append or overwrite, be careful with that 
choice.

Once you have an 'areas.bbs' established, and you're adding or removing 
only a single (or a few) echos, I find it *FAR* easier to just manually 
edit the areas.bbs file and be done with it.  But it all begins with 
creating (or deleting) the echo area in the message group, in SCFG.



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