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    From Dreamer@VELENO/VERT/SETXBBS to Nightfox on Wed Apr 24 21:00:00 2013
    Nightfox wrote to echicken <=-

    That's true. But I've found that there's always a chance that a
    message is posted immediately before the network poll, so that there is
    no time to prevent it from being sent out. If you configure Synchronet
    to poll the network hub some number of times per day, Synchronet seems
    to have set times in the day when it polls the hub. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to figure out (or have Synchronet show you) its polling schedule.

    It's actually not that hard. It's been a while since I looked around,
    but you would want to make sure your fidonet isn't set to crash
    echomail (probably exec/echocfg would help w/ that, as well as your
    ftn software). Then, in scfg, you would look at your external events,
    and you can tweak the run frequency. I don't have it in front of me,
    but I think it's in minutes.

    Granted, you still have the risk of a message being posted just
    seconds before a 6 or 8 hour poll, but longer polls minimize the risk.
    If you're trying to mitigate that risk for yourself, use an offline
    reader. ;)


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  • From Dreamer@VELENO/VERT/SETXBBS to Nightfox on Thu Apr 25 11:33:00 2013
    Nightfox wrote to Dreamer <=-

    I was actually thinking of QWK networks rather than FidoNet networks
    when I wrote that.. But I guess the same issue would happen with
    FidoNet networks too.

    Reading your reply, I just remembered something. Synchronet supports
    message moderation and validation. Looking at the manual, when
    setting up a message base, you can set the "Moderated Posting User".

    Quote: 'Users meeting the criteria set here will have their posts
    "moderated" when posting on this sub-board. Moderated messages cannot
    be read by users or exported until validated by a sub-op or sysop.'

    And, if I remember right, you validate each message with 'V' at either
    the read prompt, or the Operator menu under that.

    I'm sure unvalidated messages aren't exported, so that's always
    another option. Combine that with toggling the option to include your
    own messages in new scans and it shouldn't be too painful.

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