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   Hello Martin,   
      
   On Tuesday 11:50:00, you wrote:   
      
    MF> I'm confused!   
      
     Let me retry explaining.   
      
   Since there was no way to fetch an UPPERCASE version of the arealist, I was   
   prepared to manage the list manually - somehow.   
      
   I happend to notice a file in:   
      
   C:\home_directory_for_winpoint\WinPoint\MsgBase   
      
   ..and looked inside the file: "2.221.1.0.EchoAreas" with notepad.   
      
   I noticed that it only contained UPPERCASE text that corresponded to my prior   
   feeble attempts to use Winpoint's "Use message as Arealist" function.  The top   
   section of the arealist *did* have some uppercase words, but they were the   
   usually "hidden" header strings like MSGID and such. When I scrolled over   
   those top lines, some of the uppercase strings ended up in the Winpoint's   
   internal arealist.   
      
   Those "strings" matched exactly what was in the "2.221.1.0.EchoAreas" file   
   mentioned above.  I also noticed that each line started with a "dot", then a   
   space, and then the weird string.   
      
   So I replaced the weird/bad strings with the area names I wanted.  I saved the   
   file, RELOADED Winpoint and noticed that the area names I entered showed up in   
   the Manage Areas section, properly!   
      
   Then, from that control screen, I proceeded to select the area names I wanted,   
   to move them over to the  right-side panel.  After that, those areas then were   
   listed in WinPoint's main screen folders section.   
      
   Then I took another look inside the "Zone.Net.Node.0.EchoAreas" file and   
   noticed a difference.   
      
   The same areas were there as before, but each line started with an asterisk,   
   then a space and then the area name.   
      
   BEFORE:   
      
   . 1stAREANAME   
   . 2ndAREANAME   
   . 3rdAREANAME   
      
   AFTER:   
      
   * 1stAREANAME   
   * 2ndAREANAME   
   * 3rdAREANAME   
      
   Therefore, the asterisk represents the areas that have been "activated" to   
   show up in the WinPoint folders panel.   
      
   This means that I can build my own area list by first changing all the   
   original lower-case text to uppercase, add a dot and a space just before the   
   area name, and save that as my complete "Zone.Net.Node.0.EchoAreas" file to   
   use.   
      
   Maybe you can add a section to your fine manual about this uppercase/lowercase   
   issue, and provide an explanation with a workaround as above.   
      
   WinPoint seems to be quite a fine all-in-one program for supporting echomail   
   access without needing any other fancy FTN support programs.   I am currently   
   switching back and forth between WinPoint and the newsgroup (nntp) method with   
   Thunderbird. Both have advantages and disadvantages.  I was thinking of   
   writing up a comparison of those.   
      
   Anyway.. I hope this rewrite has cleared some of the original confusion.   
      
   Once again.. great job of tackling a manual for WinPoint!   
      
      
   ../|ug   
      
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