-=> Deuce wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 De>   Re: Re: Bugs Report (4/13/16)
 De>   By: Bill McGarrity to Deuce on Fri Apr 22 2016 09:35 am

 > I commend you on making SBBS as easy to work with as possible but in the
 > reality of things and due to the fact you recognize "other" software doesn't
 > do that, it does create issues down the line.  If indeed you intend to
 > remain fixed in your resolve then it should be important to advise those who
 > use hatchit or binkit they need to send an areafix message to uplinks
 > inserting a pkt password and advise downlinks to do the same.  I speak from
 > experience on this as Lord Time started using HatchIt and never told me or
 > anyone else he was now using it therefore, at least in my instance, my
 > secure folder had tons of BAD pkts. Yes, I was able to figure out the pw
 > issue but I can see this being an ongoing thing in the future for new
 > sysops.

 De> None of my utilities create or even currently use packets.  TickIT (the
 De> TIC processor) does not have a configuration option for a TIC password,
 De> it uses the packet password from sbbsecho.ini.  If the issue was bad
 De> packets, it had nothing to do with TickIT or HatchIT.

OK, that shines a little more light onto the issue but, most if not ALL file
processors require a password for FILEFIX. Being you need the PKT level
password in echocfg to fulfill this requirement, it also puts added weight on
those who don't want to use PKT passwords for echomail.  As I said, in the
future you may want to think about adding a toggle for TickIT in echocfg to
allow a separate password free of the PKT password.  Best of all worlds so to
speak.  



 > Just my thoughts on someone who's set in their ways of dealing with
 > dedicated programs doing things you are now investing your time into making
 > SBBS a better product. :)

 De> These are a new set of dedicated programs, not "part of" Synchronet per
 De> se. FREQIT for example is for use with binkd and other SIF-supporting
 De> mailers (BinkIT doesn't support SIF, it does FREQ stuff internally
 De> using the same config info as FREQIT.js).

OK... understood.  I use ALLFIX for that.


 De> Right now, these new scripts are really only reccomended for people who
 De> are willing to keep an eye on their Fido traffic and are able to deal
 De> with problems when they inevitably crop up.

Good deal.  I am just trying to give another outlook on your work and please do
not take it I am critizing it.  Just a different viewpoint.  :)


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Bill

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