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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