[nos-bbs] Re: Areas

[Andy Nemec]

Hi, Everyone.

I've been lurking and found a thread that for once, I may be able to 
contribute some knowledge/experience to.

Got this from a friend who operated TNOS, and adopted it when I started 
running JNOS.

We broke our areas down to a few basic public ones based on where they 
were intended to be delivered. We had one that was called "ww", another 
called "allusa", one for "allwis" (for All Wisconsin, the state we live 
in), one for "local", yet another for "nts", one for "sysop" and of course 
the users' private mail areas.

We set up our rewrite file to filter and divert mail delivery to these 
areas based upon their intended distribution.

This means that you don't have to try and keep up with the various To: 
fields that users will create or even misspell. Our BBS users would then 
not have to keep switching to various areas. In my observation, typical 
users just want the BBS to dump out a list of messages that they can read, 
and then pick the ones that they want. They don't want to keep changing 
areas or categories. That becomes more of a hassle than it's worth.

Perhaps this is an idea you can try.

And as along as I am out of lurk mode, I'll say Thanks to Maiko for 
keeping this project going. While we don't have too much activity in our 
area, it is still great to be able to operate JNOS. And even better that 
it is updated and improved.

I'll go back to Lurking now.

Andy Nemec
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