On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Sergey Poziturin wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    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?   
      
    SP> These are sysop's responsibilities, not mine. Hotdoged acquires,   
    SP> the sysop should respond, if he wants this feature. It's up to him   
    SP> how to maintain consistency of the information on his node.    
      
   understood... i was, as should have been noted, playing devil's advocate and   
   pointing to possible flaws in the process flow ;)   
      
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