mark,   
      
   15 Nov 13 09:06, you wrote to me:   
      
      
    TDP>> but the functions for creating the areas in the bbs software   
    TDP>> already exist in the source, so why not run them when an area is   
    TDP>> manually created (could be a setting somewhere)?   
      
    ml> because you may be setting up an area that you do not want on the   
    ml> BBS...   
   That's why providing a setting or an option to choose if you want to export   
   them would be a good idea :-)   
      
    ml> yeah, i don't know who started that but the importation of the *.NA   
    ml> files was only to import the ares's description into the configs...   
    ml> using the *.NA files to create all of one's file and message areas is   
    ml> not really a good idea for various reasons... but it has been done and   
    ml> others are copying it :/   
   My use would be like this: I just started a week or so with setting up my   
   system again after a 10 year break. I signed up to receive files in a couple   
   of areas, and to get a small filebase to start with, I downloaded a bunch of   
   files for those area's from someone else's system. Some areas are created in   
   Allfix automatically because files already came in from my uplink, but other   
   areas are probably a lot more quiet. To create those area's, I wanted to take   
   a part of some .NA file and import in Allfix... and therefor it would be very   
   practical if it created them in Elebbs as well. And it would be pretty easy to   
   implement such a feature because all the code is already there...   
      
      
      
   Groetjes,   
   Tom   
      
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