Echomail Areas Closing - Reminder #2
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A reminder that the following echomail areas are to be retired and will close down effective 10 May 2023

FSX_ESP Espanol General Chat
FSX_DIY D.I.Y Chat, Tips + Tricks
FSX_FOOD Food + Cooking Chat
FSX_GARDENING Gardening Chat
FSX_ARTS Arts + Artistic Chat
FSX_TRANSPORT Transportation Chat (All Modes)
FSX_SPORTS Sports Chat

In their place a new echomail area FSX_LFE has been created. It has a 'Lifestyle' focus and acts as a catch-all for topics including Gardening, DIY, Art, Food, Travel, Transport, Sports etc.

I encourage sysops to delink and remove from their BBS the echomail
areas that are closing in advance of 10 May 2023. By that date
all remaining nodes still connected to the retiring echomail areas will be manually delinked from them by your HUB admin.

If you opt to retain the retired echomail areas on your BBS for posterity
after 10 May 2023 that is your call, but please ensure they are set as
'read only' for your users.

I also encourage fsxNet sysops to look for and subscribe to the new
FSX_LFE echomail area which has now been added to the fsxnet.na file and created at your fsxNet HUB :)

New Echomail Areas Coming
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Yes, further echomail areas are planned to be added. I will be in touch by separate post with some details in the coming weeks. More to follow :)

This message has been x-posted to FSX_GEN and FSX_NET please post any
further discussion on this topic in FSX_NET

Best, Paul aka Avon

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
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On 06 May 2023, Avon said the following...

I encourage sysops to delink and remove from their BBS the echomail
areas that are closing in advance of 10 May 2023. By that date
all remaining nodes still connected to the retiring echomail areas will
be manually delinked from them by your HUB admin.

I should have time for this tonight. Do I just delete them from the BBS or do I have unsubscribe first? Never removed one. Not sure how it works. Will it delete the unused files from the BBS or do I need to manually do that?

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On 5/8/2023 7:34 AM, claw wrote to Avon:

On 06 May 2023, Avon said the following...

I encourage sysops to delink and remove from their BBS the echomail areas that are closing in advance of 10 May 2023. By that date
all remaining nodes still connected to the retiring echomail areas will be manually delinked from them by your HUB admin.

I should have time for this tonight. Do I just delete them from the BBS or do
I have unsubscribe first? Never removed one. Not sure how it works. Will it
delete the unused files from the BBS or do I need to manually do that?

After deleting the conference areas, I went into the /msgs folder and manually deleted
the corresponding conference area numbers to ensure there is no chance of duplication
in case I happen to reuse that number in the future.

Mike Dippel

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On 08 May 2023 at 07:29a, claw pondered and said...

I should have time for this tonight. Do I just delete them from the BBS or do I have unsubscribe first? Never removed one. Not sure how it works. Will it delete the unused files from the BBS or do I need to manually do that?

what I would do is send a netmail to Areafix at your HUB address, use your password in the subject line. In the message body place the correct commands to de-link the echomail areas and then send that off to the HUB.

If you're unsure what commands to use in the netmail message body use %HELP and send that off, you will get a reply back from the HUB with more help :)

Once you know you are not going to be sent any more messages from the echomail areas that are being closed/retired I'd then go into Mystic -cfg

head to the area that allows you add/delete/edit bases and delete the retired bases from your BBS and if prompted by Mystic also delete the data files associated with each base.

Having done this you will be in a situation with the old echomail areas removed from your BBS and the HUB no longer sending you anything to those bases.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going' avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 09 May 2023, Avon said the following...

what I would do is send a netmail to Areafix at your HUB address, use
your password in the subject line. In the message body place the correct commands to de-link the echomail areas and then send that off to the HUB.

If you're unsure what commands to use in the netmail message body use %HELP and send that off, you will get a reply back from the HUB with
more help :)

Once you know you are not going to be sent any more messages from the echomail areas that are being closed/retired I'd then go into Mystic -cfg

head to the area that allows you add/delete/edit bases and delete the retired bases from your BBS and if prompted by Mystic also delete the
data files associated with each base.

Having done this you will be in a situation with the old echomail areas removed from your BBS and the HUB no longer sending you anything to
those bases.

Thank you. I shall hopefully get some time tonight to look at it.

|23|04Dr|16|12Claw
|16|14Sysop |12Noverdu |14BBS |20|15Radio|10@|14HTTP://Noverdu.com:88
|16|10 Standard ports for SSH/Telnet |04 WEB|14@|12HTTP://noverdu.com:808 |20|15Global Chat, Global Messaging and Games! |16|10Ditch the Unsocial Media

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Noverdu BBS (21:1/210)