Subj : Re: Movies
To   : Erich B.
From : Jay Harris
Date : Tue Aug 31 2021 17:34:03

On 31 Aug 2021, Erich B. said the following...
 
 JH> I don't see TABLET listed on the ELIST.  You could add yourself as the
 JH> moderator of that echo if you felt so inclined.  I did the same with the
 JH> HOROSCOPE echo recently.

 EB> I never done this before. Can you go step with me? Thanks.

Yup yup, you can find all of the documentation in the elisthlp.txt file in this archive:

http://www.filegate.net/pub/echolist/ELST2108.ZIP


Basically what you'll want to do is create a file called TABLET.ECO (or whatever you want your echo to be named) and then send that FILE to 2:250/1.

The contents of the file (to create the new echo) should look like:

[--- BEGIN TABLET.ECO ---]
SUBJ MOD-ADD
TAG TABLET
GROUP FIDO
FROM Erich B, 1:103/705
PASS SuperSecretPassword
LANG ENGLISH
TITL Discussions about Tablet & Apps
MOD Erich B, 1:103/705
DESC Discussions about Tablet & Apps
GATE Permitted
DIST All Official Fidonet Backbones
[--- END TABLET.ECO ---]

To send the file to Vincent's system varies by BBS software, in my case with Mystic I added his system as a node with a filebox and dropped the .ECO file in there.  Once Mystic saw the file, it sent it off to his system and about an hour later I saw the message in the ELIST echo that it was added.

Every 6 months you'll need to "renew" your echo, so keep an eye out on the ELIST echo for an expiry notice.  You can just send a minimal .ECO update to renew your echo like so:

[--- BEGIN TABLET.ECO ---]
SUBJ MOD-UPD
TAG TABLET
GROUP FIDO
FROM Erich B, 1:103/705
PASS SuperSecretPassword
[--- END TABLET.ECO ---]


You can also create a TABLET.RUL file as well if you wanted to post the rules of the echo as well.


Jay

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/29 (Raspberry Pi/32)
 * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)

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