[nos-bbs] Re: Areas

[Miroslav Skoric (YT7MPB)]

Andy Nemec wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> 

Andy, from your example I can imagine that, say, 'dx' or 'dxnews' groups
should end up within 'ww' area because dx news are interesting for the
rest of the world :-)  But if somebody happens to post a new '29.5GHz'
type of bulletins, who is supposed to set up your rewrite file to divert
mail delivery to the specific destination.

> 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.
> 

That's the way I prefer.

Misko