I've added and subtracted message areas on my BBS and have a message area that's showing messages from another group when I download the message area via QWK. When I look at the area locally on the BBS, everything looks good. One group is set to dynamic numbering, the other is static.

How do I reset the QWK areas?

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Re: Mixed up QWK areas?
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Tue Mar 18 2014 11:32 am

I've added and subtracted message areas on my BBS and have a message area that's showing messages from another group when I download the message area via QWK. When I look at the area locally on the BBS, everything looks good. One group is set to dynamic numbering, the other is static.

How do I reset the QWK areas?

If you have one sub-board set to dynamic numbering and another set to static, you could end up with a QWK conferencing number conflict. Your QWK CONTROL.DAT file (included in the .QWK file) will clearly show if there are conference number conflicts on your system.

digital man

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Re: Mixed up QWK areas?
By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Mar 18 2014 12:39 pm

If you have one sub-board set to dynamic numbering and another set to static, you could end up with a QWK conferencing number conflict. Your
QWK CONTROL.DAT file (included in the .QWK file) will clearly show if there are conference number conflicts on your system.

Thanks for the pointer -- I have the DOVENet echoes statically numbered (followed the instructions and kept the same conference numbers for QWK networking). The rest of my FTN areas are dynamic.

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Re: Mixed up QWK areas?
By: Poindexter Fortran to Digital Man on Tue Mar 18 2014 01:30 pm

Re: Mixed up QWK areas?
By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Mar 18 2014 12:39 pm

If you have one sub-board set to dynamic numbering and another set to static, you could end up with a QWK conferencing number conflict. Your QWK CONTROL.DAT file (included in the .QWK file) will clearly show if there are conference number conflicts on your system.

Thanks for the pointer -- I have the DOVENet echoes statically numbered (followed the instructions and kept the same conference numbers for QWK networking). The rest of my FTN areas are dynamic.

You only need the DOVE-Net sub-boards set to static conference number if you're
going to be *hub* for other DOVE-Net nodes. As stated at http://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net

``Normally, you should have your sub-boards configured for "Dynamic" QWK conference numbering.''

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Re: Mixed up QWK areas?
By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Mar 18 2014 02:10 pm

You only need the DOVE-Net sub-boards set to static conference number if you're going to be *hub* for other DOVE-Net nodes. As stated at http://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net

I set mine up so long ago using the dove-net.txt file that listed static message area IDs starting with 2000... is there any benefit to setting them to to Dynamic now?

It looks like the dynamic IDs are generated by the conference number padded out to 1000 - conference 1 IDs are 1000, 1001, 1002, conference 2 IDs are 2000, 2001, 2002, etc.

As long as Dovenet is conference number 2 in my configuration all seems fine. :)


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Re: Mixed up QWK areas?
By: Poindexter Fortran to Digital Man on Wed Mar 19 2014 09:29 am

Re: Mixed up QWK areas?
By: Digital Man to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Mar 18 2014 02:10 pm

You only need the DOVE-Net sub-boards set to static conference number if you're going to be *hub* for other DOVE-Net nodes. As stated at http://wiki.synchro.net/network:dove-net

I set mine up so long ago using the dove-net.txt file that listed static message area IDs starting with 2000... is there any benefit to setting them to to Dynamic now?

No, so long as there is no conflict.

It looks like the dynamic IDs are generated by the conference number padded out to 1000 - conference 1 IDs are 1000, 1001, 1002, conference 2 IDs are 2000, 2001, 2002, etc.

Correct.

As long as Dovenet is conference number 2 in my configuration all seems fine. :)

Usually, yes. But if you have another set of sub-boards with statically-assigned conference numbers in the 2000's, then it would be a problem.

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