Subj : BBBS is the most generous BBS Ever :-)
To   : Allen Prunty
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Mar 14 2017 21:11:44


 On 2017 Mar 14 12:30:42, you wrote to All:

 AP> Can someone please post a full explanation on the regex Areafix
 AP> requests.

the key is to know and understand regex... there are several variations but the 
main thing to remember is to prefix your echos with "echo" and your FDNs with 
"file"... from there use the "^" and "$" to bracket your and match on only that 
specific item...

eg:
echo +^foz$
file +^foobar$
echo -^blerg$
file -^blarg$

the above will match only what is between the "^" and "$" and will limit them 
to only the "echo" or "file" listing specified... "+" or "-" at the 
demonstrated point will add or remove the link...

for an example of something simple but more widely matched, the following will 
add three echos and one FDN...

eg:
mystic

since there is nothing to limit it to only echos of FDNs, it will add both... 
in this case there are at least three echos, MYSTIC, ALT-BBS-MYSTIC and 
STN.MYSTIC, that will be added to your stream as well as the one FDN tag of 
MYSTIC...

it would be great if there was a more limiting factor, sysop side, where you 
could list echos and FDNs in different groups and then give access to those 
groups to each link... this could, depending on the operator's settings, limit 
fidonet systems to only fidonet echos and FDNs... it could also limit STN 
systems to only STN echos and FDNs...

on my main system, i'm limited to only 36 groups with fastecho... a-z0-9 
IIRC... i like sbbsecho's multi-character groups (4 characters IIRC) because it 
allows for a lot more groups... using just letters and numbers, no case 
distinction, we're looking at up to 1679616 groups... figure maybe 10 per 
network and there's plenty of room for even our favorite Z2 FTN collector to be 
able to filter available areas for all of his links to only those areas they 
should have access to...

FWIW: i think HPT is also limited in the number of groups it can work with... 
like FE, i think only one character wide is allowed...

)\/(ark

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