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  ;*)   
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