Subj : A reminder of the method of processing all ELIST submissions
To   : All
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Sun May 17 2020 13:08:45

Hello All!

Wednesday May 13 2020 14:08, I wrote to you:

 > If the echo also has rules then the moderator has two options:

 > 1.  Include within the .ECO file as the last keyword :
 >     RULETEXT

 > Followed by the rules content and this can be any number of lines but
 > none exceeding 75 characters wide and this is to help the older BBS to
 > cope as some may have been designed for working under DOS when users
 > had a 80 column screen.

 > At then end of the rules the last line must be a line with :
 > -!-

 > If the keyword RULETEXT is being used in a submission file then the
 > elist program will extract the content between RULETEXT and ---
 > creating a (wait for it ) file echtag.RUL  and these are stored in the
 > master directory rules which is part of the ELST archive sent out each
 > month or the weekly EL archive.


Sorry, my Golded editor changes the text whenever you use 3 hyphens, hence in
4th para in placeed a ! in the middle but it didn't do it in the 5th para as
the 3 hyphens are not at the start of the line.

Must try and remember this....


Vincent

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