Hello, mark lewis.   
   On 23.10.13 6:17 you wrote:   
      
    SP>> I prefer creating a communicating interface between hotdoged and    
    SP>> the node to transfer not only echo names, but also amount of    
    SP>> messages in the group, last message date and so on.   
    ML> quantities are available in the Echolist but they are manually    
    ML> maintained... last post date is not and there's no real way to do    
    ML> so because of the nature of the media... consider this scenario: a    
    ML> system has problems with a corrupted tosser setup and restores an    
    ML> old tosser config... that config is missing a area of interest...    
    ML> systems downstream of the broken system are now cut off from those    
    ML> upstream of the broken system... each system is its own pocket for    
    ML> the area... where do we gather the statistics from? the broken    
    ML> system? one of those upstream from it? the point's feed downstream    
    ML> from the broken system?   
      
   These are sysop's responsibilities, not mine. Hotdoged acquires, the sysop   
   should respond, if he wants this feature. It's up to him how to maintain   
   consistency of the information on his node.    
      
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   Best regards!   
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