[fbb] WP Update /U only

[Charles E. Gelm]

Hi, Wayne:


Wayne wrote:
> 
> KC4YEK,
> 
> Why not read the Docs on WP and Watch your WP file in the BBS for
> a couple of weeks.  I have a suspicion that you will find that EVERY msg
> 
> that passes through your BBS Updates the WP File the same way the
> BBS's that you forward to everyday get updates from your traffic.
> 
> Also everytime one of your users types a msg to be sent out from your
> BBS evedry BBS that that msg passes thru gets updated automatically.

I know that.  That is not what I am talking about.
 
> You will get comments from Sysops and Users who disagree with my
> idea but it is that there is only a couple of times in a BBS's life that
> it
> needs to send out a WP Update Msg.
> 
> 1.  When it is first put on the Air.
>  2.  If you ever have to reinstall the software.

? Whenever a new user registers.
? Whenever a user changes his home pbbs.

> Forwarding Files setup is a thousand times more important than WP
> Update msgs these days.  If you never send a WP Update Msg your
> BBS and it's users will be known in 80% of the BBS,s out there in less
> than a month and maybe less if user traffic is heavy.

(IMHO, 80% is far fetched, 8% might be more accurate, however,
 I agree that the point is that this event occurs auto-magically. ;-)

Only if the user originates 1 or more messages.

Regards, Chuck

> If you want to send them then by all means do so but realize that the
> way
> most BBS's operate today updates by themselves are not really necessary.
> 
> 73 Wayne
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