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|    Erich B. to Jay Harris    |
|    Re: Movies    |
|    31 Aug 21 15:31:34    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 40402.chat@1:103/705 25948198       REPLY: 1:229/664 642c1289       PID: Synchronet 3.19a-Linux master/3313031a7 Aug 9 2021 GCC 8.3.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Linux master/3313031a7 Aug 9 2021 GCC 8.3.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: UTF-8 4              > On 31 Aug 2021, Erich B. said the following...              > Yup yup, you can find all of the documentation in the elisthlp.txt file in       > this archive:              > http://www.filegate.net/pub/echolist/ELST2108.ZIP              > Basically what you'll want to do is create a file called TABLET.ECO (or       > whatever you want your echo to be named) and then send that FILE to 2:250/1.              > The contents of the file (to create the new echo) should look like:              > [--- BEGIN TABLET.ECO ---]       > SUBJ MOD-ADD       > TAG TABLET       > GROUP FIDO       > FROM Erich B, 1:103/705       > PASS SuperSecretPassword       > LANG ENGLISH       > TITL Discussions about Tablet & Apps       > MOD Erich B, 1:103/705       > DESC Discussions about Tablet & Apps       > GATE Permitted       > DIST All Official Fidonet Backbones       > [--- END TABLET.ECO ---]              > To send the file to Vincent's system varies by BBS software, in my case with       > Mystic I added his system as a node with a filebox and dropped the .ECO file       > in there. Once Mystic saw the file, it sent it off to his system and about       > an hour later I saw the message in the ELIST echo that it was added.              > Every 6 months you'll need to "renew" your echo, so keep an eye out on the       > ELIST echo for an expiry notice. You can just send a minimal .ECO update to       > renew your echo like so:              > [--- BEGIN TABLET.ECO ---]       > SUBJ MOD-UPD       > TAG TABLET       > GROUP FIDO       > FROM Erich B, 1:103/705       > PASS SuperSecretPassword       > [--- END TABLET.ECO ---]              > You can also create a TABLET.RUL file as well if you wanted to post the rules       > of the echo as well.              > Jay              > ... Milhouse, we live in the age of cooties! - Bart Simpson              > --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/29 (Raspberry Pi/32)       > * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)                     Sounds pretty complicated to me. I’ll probably mess it up most likely.              $ The Millionaire $       --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 103/705 105/81 124/5016 129/305 153/757 203/0 218/700 840       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 360 229/426 428 664 700 240/5832 280/464 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 310/31 322/757 335/364 396/45 423/81 120 460/58       SEEN-BY: 770/1 4500/1       PATH: 103/705 280/464 221/1 6 229/664 426           |
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