On 2017 Jan 18 17:41:36, you wrote to Nick Andre:   
      
    ML>>> personally speaking, i try to have a complete help for each areafix   
    ML>>> that i have to work with... sadly that's not always possible... some   
    ML>>> of the ones i have to work with are hpt, fastecho, dbridge, fmail,   
    ML>>> mystic, vfido, bbbs,   
      
    NA>> Oh c'mon now... now you're regressing back to your nonsense bizarre   
    NA>> ranting.   
      
    NA>> How freaking difficult is it for you to use Areafix? You need to   
    NA>> collect different "help" screens? WTF?   
      
    WV> I don't think that's so bizarre. I'm doing it too. The basic functions   
    WV> (adding and removing areas) are simpel and almost everywhere the same.   
      
   thank you...   
      
    WV> But when you are doing something less common, like for instance   
    WV> rescanning, the syntax is often different. And I don't want to wait   
    WV> (sometimes) hours, before you get a reply to your %HELP.   
      
   this actually depends on the remote system's mail tossing schedule... if you   
   were linked here, you'd wait up to an hour in 99% of the cases... why? because   
   i process mail once an hour to save wear and tear on the system...   
      
    WV> It's quite easy to save the reply message to a %HELP once you got it   
    WV> for a later time when you "need" it...   
      
   there is that and it only works for those systems that even send such back...   
   some do and some do not... heck, i've installed numerous tossers over the   
   years so i could find and save out their areafix.hlp file only to not find one   
   at all... some were hardcoded with such and others didn't have one at all do   
   downlinks had to ask the sysop what the commands were, if they even knew, or   
   they had to ask the sysop to add and remove areas or even to rescan some if   
   that was an option...   
      
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