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  • Newslink oddity

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to All on Saturday, January 03, 2026 09:05:00
    OK, so I deleted a message area. Downloaded a new QWK packet, since
    making changes in mid-QWK process can mix up where the replies land.

    I posted a new message in alt.bbs.ads.

    Downloaded a QWK packet this morning and it was huge - looked at the
    packet, and alt.bbs.ads in my packet contains my message, a couple of
    other new messages, and the entire contents of alt.sysadmin.recovery.

    I see the messages in there, when I log on locally - each with the
    header From Newsgroup: "alt.sysadmin.recovery"

    I am running an older version of newslink.cfg from the mods folder, I
    needed to auto-approve posts to a.s.r.



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  • From Digital Man@VERT to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, January 03, 2026 14:34:00
    Re: Newslink oddity
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Jan 03 2026 09:05 am

    OK, so I deleted a message area. Downloaded a new QWK packet, since
    making changes in mid-QWK process can mix up where the replies land.

    I posted a new message in alt.bbs.ads.

    Downloaded a QWK packet this morning and it was huge - looked at the
    packet, and alt.bbs.ads in my packet contains my message, a couple of
    other new messages, and the entire contents of alt.sysadmin.recovery.

    I see the messages in there, when I log on locally - each with the
    header From Newsgroup: "alt.sysadmin.recovery"

    You see those messages in where?

    I am running an older version of newslink.cfg from the mods folder, I
    needed to auto-approve posts to a.s.r.

    That sounds like QWK conference re-numbering (because you deleted a message area) and not a newslink issue.
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT to Digital Man on Saturday, January 03, 2026 15:50:00
    Re: Newslink oddity
    By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 03 2026 02:34 pm

    From Newsgroup: "alt.sysadmin.recovery"

    You see those messages in where?

    In alt.bbs.ads.

    That sounds like QWK conference re-numbering (because you deleted a message area) and not a newslink issue.

    The timing was odd, but when I logged onto the BBS locally, I saw the messages from a.s.r in alt.bbs.ads.

    I ran an SMBUTIL and deleted the message files, they were just ads anyways.

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