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    From Netsurge@77:1/100 to All on Sat Jun 15 18:32:08 2019
    We have had a few new nodes that I setup today joining us. They should be connected shortly.

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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Fri Jun 21 13:57:06 2019
    Re: New nodes
    By: Netsurge to All on Sat Jun 15 2019 06:32 pm

    We have had a few new nodes that I setup today joining us. They should be connected shortly.

    It looks like I have some messages coming now, and one of my tests posts on SCISYSOP went through. I only have messages in 3 of the echos though; I'm not sure if that means the other echoes are empty or something is messed up in my configuration.

    Nightfox
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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Nightfox on Fri Jun 21 20:37:58 2019
    It looks like I have some messages coming now, and one of my tests posts on SCISYSOP went through. I only have messages in 3 of the echos
    though; I'm not sure if that means the other echoes are empty or
    something is messed up in my configuration.

    We only have a few echos active as I only restarted SciNet a few weeks ago,
    but I am about to post something in another echo. Lets see if you get that fine.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/111 to Nightfox on Fri Jun 21 21:18:54 2019
    On Friday June 21, 2019, Nightfox said to Netsurge...

    It looks like I have some messages coming now, and one of my tests posts
    on SCISYSOP went through. I only have messages in 3 of the echos
    though; I'm not sure if that means the other echoes are empty or
    something is messed up in my configuration.

    Now that I have actually checked, there are only a few echos without
    messages. You might want to rescan all of the SciNet echos to pickup the messages from the past few weeks.

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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Fri Jun 21 20:09:06 2019
    Re: Re: New nodes
    By: Netsurge to Nightfox on Fri Jun 21 2019 08:37 pm

    It looks like I have some messages coming now, and one of my tests
    posts on SCISYSOP went through. I only have messages in 3 of the
    echos though; I'm not sure if that means the other echoes are empty
    or something is messed up in my configuration.

    We only have a few echos active as I only restarted SciNet a few weeks ago, but I am about to post something in another echo. Lets see if you get that fine.

    I got a couple posts from you in the Fantasy Chat and Retro Computing echos. But those are currently the only messages I have in there. I logged into your BBS and checked yours, and thre are more messages there on your BBS than I have in mine. Earlier today I tried to do a %RESET in an AreaFix message (I think that's the right command) in an attempt to have it send me all the messages, but I don't think that worked.

    Nightfox
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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Nightfox on Fri Jun 21 23:48:34 2019
    We only have a few echos active as I only restarted SciNet a few week ago, but I am about to post something in another echo. Lets see if yo that fine.

    Mystic's areafix command for rescanning message bases is:

    %RESCAN

    Send the message to Areafix@77:1/100 with your areafix password in the
    subject and %RESCAN in the body and you should be good.

    You can also add %HELP in a new line and you will get back a help message detailing all the areafix commands.

    The same can be done for fileechos by sending a netmail to filefix instead.

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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Fri Jun 21 21:06:50 2019
    Re: Re: New nodes
    By: Netsurge to Nightfox on Fri Jun 21 2019 11:48 pm

    We only have a few echos active as I only restarted SciNet a few
    week ago, but I am about to post something in another echo. Lets
    see if yo that fine.

    Mystic's areafix command for rescanning message bases is:

    %RESCAN

    Send the message to Areafix@77:1/100 with your areafix password in the subject and %RESCAN in the body and you should be good.

    I had tried that but it wasn't downloading all the messages.. I just tried it again with an R=2000 parameter to download the most recent 2000 messages (I don't think there are that many messages, but I just wanted to specify a large enough number to get them all):
    %RESCAN R=2000

    Nightfox
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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Nightfox on Sat Jun 22 00:54:28 2019
    I had tried that but it wasn't downloading all the messages.. I just tried it again with an R=2000 parameter to download the most recent 2000 messages (I don't think there are that many messages, but I just wanted
    to specify a large enough number to get them all):
    %RESCAN R=2000

    Let me know if it works out, my logs show that you got some 300+ messages.

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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Sat Jun 22 11:46:30 2019
    Re: Re: New nodes
    By: Netsurge to Nightfox on Sat Jun 22 2019 12:54 am

    I had tried that but it wasn't downloading all the messages.. I
    just tried it again with an R=2000 parameter to download the most
    recent 2000 messages (I don't think there are that many messages,
    but I just wanted to specify a large enough number to get them all):
    %RESCAN R=2000

    Let me know if it works out, my logs show that you got some 300+ messages.

    It seems I didn't get all the messages.. For instance, my BBS Software and BBS Modding echoes still don't have any messages. My logs look okay, there aren't any unknown areas reported. I suppose I'll keep looking for issues on my side.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Nightfox on Sat Jun 22 16:27:50 2019
    It seems I didn't get all the messages.. For instance, my BBS Software and BBS Modding echoes still don't have any messages. My logs look
    okay, there aren't any unknown areas reported. I suppose I'll keep looking for issues on my side.

    I'm going to force it at my end so that I can inspect the packet. It also
    very well might be a Mystic issue. Are you at least getting new messages in
    the other echos now?

    I will be switching to BinkD and the Husky project shortly. Now that more and more people are joining SciNet, I really need to rely on a mature and proven echomail/fileecho eco-system. I'll keep the BBS on Mystic, I just don't think Mystic is ready to handle a large load.

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  • From ryan@77:1/128 to Netsurge on Sat Jun 22 20:52:52 2019
    I will be switching to BinkD and the Husky project shortly. Now that
    more and more people are joining SciNet, I really need to rely on a
    mature and proven echomail/fileecho eco-system. I'll keep the BBS on Mystic, I just don't think Mystic is ready to handle a large load.

    I think Avon (Paul Hayton) uses Mystic for all of this, and fsxNet is fairly large. I could be wrong. But I do agree that mystic feels like it may do a
    few things...oddly. My bbs, for example :P

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to ryan on Sat Jun 22 17:25:42 2019
    I think Avon (Paul Hayton) uses Mystic for all of this, and fsxNet is fairly large. I could be wrong. But I do agree that mystic feels like it may do a few things...oddly. My bbs, for example :P

    He does, but they also do some weird multiple mystic installs for their connections. He also runs FD over IP.

    Mystic is great as a standalone solution, but htick, hpt, binkd and it's perl hooks offer so much more, especially for a largeish network. Mystic just doesn't have that type of feature set.

    The husky project has such large support and is focused on doing echomail and doing it well. It's been running Region 50 in Fidonet (all of Russia) for a long time.

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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Sat Jun 22 17:08:04 2019
    Re: Re: New nodes
    By: Netsurge to Nightfox on Sat Jun 22 2019 04:27 pm

    It seems I didn't get all the messages.. For instance, my BBS
    Software and BBS Modding echoes still don't have any messages. My
    logs look okay, there aren't any unknown areas reported. I suppose
    I'll keep looking for issues on my side.

    I'm going to force it at my end so that I can inspect the packet. It also very well might be a Mystic issue. Are you at least getting new messages in the other echos now?

    Yes, I'm getting messages in some of the other echos. I think part of the problem was I had some of my Synchronet internal message area codes misconfigured in my configuration for SciNet, but I had fixed that a couple days ago but am still not receiving messages in those areas. Other than that, I'm not sure what might be going on, and I'm not seeing any 'unrecognized area' errors in my tosser log anymore for SciNet. Maybe some areas still aren't getting any messages sent.. I know for sure SCIBBSSOFT and SCIBBSMOD are areas that you have messages for on your BBS but I haven't received any; there are a couple others too.

    Nightfox
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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to ryan on Sun Jun 23 11:06:50 2019
    Re: Re: New nodes
    By: ryan to Netsurge on Sat Jun 22 2019 08:52 pm

    I will be switching to BinkD and the Husky project shortly. Now that
    more and more people are joining SciNet, I really need to rely on a
    mature and proven echomail/fileecho eco-system. I'll keep the BBS on
    Mystic, I just don't think Mystic is ready to handle a large load.

    I think Avon (Paul Hayton) uses Mystic for all of this, and fsxNet is fairly large. I could be wrong. But I do agree that mystic feels like it may do a few things...oddly. My bbs, for example :P

    Yeah, I'm on fsxNet and haven't noticed an issue there yet.

    Nightfox
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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Nightfox on Sun Jun 23 20:01:32 2019
    Yeah, I'm on fsxNet and haven't noticed an issue there yet.

    There have been a few issues including support for the older packet 3 type systems. I had a problem with my Amiga system sending netmail to Mystic. This problem happened with Dan who is my fsxNet hub and with my own system, so it
    is a repeatable bug.

    Mystic lacks things like route checking, packet tools and a few other tools that make running a large network easier. Mystic also does some voodoo in
    order to get file tics to move around properly. mutil copies the tic and the corresponding file to a filebox in order to send it to a node instead of following the FTSC guidelines of attaching it to a netmail. It also lacks
    tools to manually hatch a file, etc..

    It is much like Synchronet. It works for networks, it just doesn't provide additional tools to make it easier.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Nightfox on Mon Jun 24 01:15:56 2019
    I had tried that but it wasn't downloading all the messages.. I just tried it again with an R=2000 parameter to download the most recent 2000 messages (I don't think there are that many messages, but I just wanted
    to specify a large enough number to get them all):
    %RESCAN R=2000

    Now that I finally have hpt running, can you try to rescan the echos again.

    Thanks.

    frank // netsurge
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  • From ryan@77:1/128 to Nightfox on Mon Jun 24 06:04:52 2019
    Yeah, I'm on fsxNet and haven't noticed an issue there yet.

    Me neither, until sadly today where someone gated dupe messages from years
    ago back into all the main subs :/

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to ryan on Mon Jun 24 02:32:08 2019
    Me neither, until sadly today where someone gated dupe messages from
    years ago back into all the main subs :/

    That was a downlink who clearly doesn't know how to setup a network.

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  • From Nightfox@77:1/110 to Netsurge on Mon Jun 24 09:36:24 2019
    Re: Re: New nodes
    By: Netsurge to Nightfox on Mon Jun 24 2019 01:15 am

    Now that I finally have hpt running, can you try to rescan the echos again.

    I sent a rescan, so we'll see how that goes.

    Nightfox
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