-=> On 01-08-15 14:19, Accession wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-   
      
   Hiya Nick...   
      
      
    Ac> On 08 Jan 15 02:15, Bill McGarrity wrote to Accession:   
      
    BM> Both were typos.... the space and the dash.  Too little sleep.   
      
    BM> The way it's written is: ROUTE_TO 2:ALL   
      
    Ac> Okay, then my next questions are:   
      
    Ac> Was it destined from your system? Or from another system passing   
    Ac> through your system?   
    Ac> If it was from another system, what BBS software was it running?   
      
   From my system.   
      
      
    Ac> In this case especially, I can't believe that those two "catch-all"   
    Ac> ROUTE_TO statements would matter if they were reversed or not.   
    Ac> Basically, one is saying route everything for zones 1, 3, and 4 through   
    Ac> Janis, while the other one is saying to route all of zone 2 through   
    Ac> Bjorn.   
      
    Ac> The only time I can see needing things in a certain order, is if you're   
    Ac> setting   
      
    Ac> up a direct link with someone in zone 1, in some software you would   
    Ac> have to specify that direct link BEFORE your catch-all, ie:   
      
    Ac> DIRECT 1:154/10   
    Ac> ROUTtE_TO 1:123/500 1:ALL   
      
    Ac> Or similarly, some kind of more specific routing before a catch-all,   
    Ac> ie:   
      
    Ac> ROUTE_TO 1:154/ALL 1:154/10   
    Ac> ROUTE_TO 1:123/500 1:ALL   
      
    Ac> I can't see two catch-all statements making any difference above or   
    Ac> below each other. And even if it were true in some cases, I don't think   
    Ac> it matters any in Synchronet's sbbsecho.cfg. If you ever noticed when   
    Ac> you use echocfg to do your routing, it puts things in oddball random   
    Ac> places compared to the way these older softwares worked (and people are   
    Ac> describing right now). This is the main reason why I have and always   
    Ac> will edit sbbsecho.cfg manually. I think the config file is easier to   
    Ac> read if you to it in a more heirarchial format. And I can be an anal   
    Ac> retentive muhfugga sometimes, too. :)   
      
   I'll be looking at it more this weekend.  As soon as I figure out how binkd   
   uses the nodelist I'll just crash direct,   
      
   :)   
      
      
   Bill   
      
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