Allow/Deny Net Mail Can users send mail over the network?
10.11.2 PACKUP E-MAIL
To pack up the mail, means to redo the relative file that the e-mail is
stored in. As users write e-mail and delete the mail, sections of the
relative file become empty. By using the ‘P’ command, you rewrite the
relative file into a smaller file. Some caution is advised however, as
sometimes the e-mail may get scrambled.
One last thought on e-mail, when you set up your BBS system, put the e-mail
into its own partition. Remember that the e-mail file is a relative file.
The file grows as required. Sometimes, the file may encroach onto another
file and you can get some real weird things happening.
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11.0 USER LIST
Using the user list system, you are able to perform a search for a very
specifically defined group of users, list account data in tabular form, or
simply display a list of handles.
11.1 OUTPUT ORDER AND TRANSVERSE DIRECTION
Searching and listing of accounts can be performed in either alphabetic
user handle order, or in user ID number order. Alphabetic handle order
searches and listings cause C-NET to have to jump all around the user data
file according to the alphabetic order of your user’s handles -- THE
BORDER, then THE BOSS, then THE BROTHER, etc. To perform an ID number
order search or listing, C-NET merely has to move through the user data
file in a sequential manner -- account number 1, then 2, etc. If you are
searching your entire user base for an end list of matching accounts that
is anticipated to be very small, ID number searching is generally much
faster and easier on the disk drive than is alphabetic searching.
You also have an option to move through (transverse) the data in either
ascending or descending order. Descending order will search and list in
DECREASING ID number order or alphabetic handles order.
11.2 QUICK LIST
You are given the option to perform a simple ‘quick list’ by selecting ‘Y’