Subj : other social media areas.
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 11:03:18

> As you said, it went through but maybe the ADD was not needed,
> automatic wen you post a message.. Unless it refuses to let you
> post before adding.. I don't do this stuff often enough..  B)

It shouldn't refuse the post.  I am not as clear about whether or not it
will auto-add a user if they post to the conference.  I am thinking it did
not used to but may do so now.  From my end, it looked like that is what
you did that worked the last time.

> If you want to drop a conference, that's a little different.
> I've hit the key to drop a conference before and it either
> didn't happen or didn't happen for quite a while.

That is one I have never got to work, with SLMR or Multimail.  I will ask
about that in the support echo and see what the answer is so that I will
know, too!

> Another bit of confusion is I find myself getting messages from
> a conference I never signed up for so some of it seems automatic,
> maybe when a new conference on a network is started up..

> I assume some of the conferences are on Your BBS and you have
> more control over those..

Yes.  When you add a message area, synchronet has a lot of switches that
can be set Y/N and, if the sysop doesn't get the combinations right, it can
cause conferences to auto-add for users.  There is a switch that
specifically ask if I want that to be done and I am almost positive that
setting that to "N" doesn't always stop it from doing so.  I think there is
a combo of a couple of switches that have to be set to get it to actually
work as I would expect and I am not sure I have figured that combo out!  :D

Mike

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