On Fri, 15 Nov 2013, Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    TDP>> I'm trying to have Allfix create new fileecho's in EleBBS. This   
    TDP>> works when an area is automatically created using the mask which   
    TDP>> is defined in the filegroups. But when I manually enter a new   
    TDP>> fileecho in asetup then this doesn't seem to create anything in   
    TDP>> EleBBS. I would assume that it's supposed to create it in elebbs   
    TDP>> too?   
      
    ml> no... if you create them in allfix manually, then it would seem to be   
    ml> that you would also manually create them in the bbs software... the   
    ml> same thing comes for updating one's FREQ directories list for mailers   
    ml> or FREQ processors to use so they know what directories to look in for   
    ml> FREQs...   
      
    TDP> And is that on purpose?   
      
   yes as far as i know... it has always been that way...   
      
    TDP> I mean, I don't know about the freq things,    
      
   FREQs are file requests... inbound FREQs have to be processed by some software   
   that knows where to look for the file(s) being requested so one must maintain   
   a list of directories that others are allowed to FREQ from... there is also a   
   list of "magic names" where one can FREQ one specific name and get the latest   
   file for that name...   
      
     eg: nodelist -> nodelist.z12   
      
   where nodelist.z12 is changed in the list every time a new nodelist.z?? file   
   is received...   
      
    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)?   
      
   because you may be setting up an area that you do not want on the BBS...   
      
    TDP> Same thing for using the import fuction to import a filebone.na    
    TDP> file...   
      
   yeah, i don't know who started that but the importation of the *.NA files was   
   only to import the ares's description into the configs... using the *.NA files   
   to create all of one's file and message areas is not really a good idea for   
   various reasons... but it has been done and others are copying it :/   
      
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