• Expiring echos etc

    From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to All on Fri Apr 1 23:40:23 2022
    Hello All!

    Please ignore all notices regarding Expiring areas.
    I am currently testing a new version of elist that changes the time periods from :

    6 months + 4 normal warmings + 1 month for deletion to :
    10 Months + 1 warning + 1 month for deletion warning so move than 365 days.

    If the areas is to be removed from the ELIST reports etc the area is moved over
    to the backbone only which does not have expiry periods.

    This results that if any area on the backbone group needs to be deleted, it has
    to be done by elistmain user using a submission file or via the interactive program.

    Hopefully this will reduce you having to send in updates but I still recommend that is you have a O/S (Operating System) that handles a scheduler such
    as Linux, and later Windows you can set up up to do this automatically, sending
    in your echo.ECO files with at a minimum basic MOD-UPD info.


    I may have to modify the above scheduling time periods subject to what happens.


    The output from elist will now also include a BACKBONE.RPT and BACKBONE.NA file
    that can be used as you bbs list of available echos for any auto create processing and this file is more useful than ELIST.NA.

    As expiring Fido echo's are now transferred to the backbone lists only it will reduce your work loads if needed.

    If you have any questions regarding the above post them here.

    For testing - I was hoping to complete this before 23:30 on the 1st April but I am finding some bugs in the reporting for echo network group and that has to be resolved first before making it active assuming I don't find any more.

    I have reduced the reporting of each echo's Rules file to 2 time per year i.e.,
    January and July as the report get some what large with all the long winded rules in use by some moderators.

    I will also be considering that the netmail reports include such rules file so all moderators can check them for context, brevity etc or am I being a bit wishful ?

    Vincent

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