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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