Subj : WWIV 5.0 Release + News. To : Sean Dennis From : mark lewis Date : Tue Jan 19 2016 12:56 am 18 Jan 16 22:00, you wrote to me: ml>> you do know that that's not really the proper way to do set up message SD> There's no such "proper" way as each system is individualized and set SD> up as to how the sysop likes. where that was coming from is that some package, some many years back, came up with a method of importing the backbone.na file directly into the bbs system to configure all the message areas... that led to systems with improper security with regard to sysop only and other similar type areas (aka regional only, zonal only, net only, etc)... that led to ""leaking"" of certain areas and those areas are still leaking today because no one has gone back and "FixedTheirShit" ;) kinda like those bbs-in-a-box archives... unzip it, change one or two things and hey! you're a sysop! SD> Ease up on the soapbox. no soapbox here... )\/(ark "So let me ask you a question about this brave new world of yours. When you've killed all the bad guys, and when it's all perfect, and just and fair, and when you have finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you? The trouble makers. How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one?" - The twelfth Doctor .... I'm *not* losing my hair...I'm growing a solar panel ;*) --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .