In the TO: field send to: All

Exmple:

TO: All
Subject: Test Message


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>If I want to write a message to "ALL"... what do I have to do in WINS to sen
>message to all the users...


"All" usually sends the message to "All."
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"All" usually sends the message to "All."

Nope, it doesn't. Writing a message to All in WINServer is like
write a message to ALL in a FidoNET echo. a cc is not sent out to
all your users. Most BBS packages have this feature. I left a
message on the WINServer listserver and what I found out is that I
would need to buy the wcReports package. Santronics, or Mustang
Software, made a choice at some point to spread needed features over
2, 3 or 4 different programs so that a SysOP was forced to buy 2, 3
or 4 different programs. I have spent soooooo much over the years supporting Santronics.... I am just not going to spe other dime so
that I can cc a message to all my users.

So you are wanting to send the same message at once to every user on your system individually? Seems like an easy job for a wcCODE module to me. But, you are right. A lot of other BBS packages do have this feature built in.


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So you are wanting to send the same message at once to every user
system individually? Seems like an easy job for a wcCODE module
But, you are right. A lot of other BBS packages do have this fea
built in.

I know most, if not all, other packages have that built into the
package. Most of these packages are free, and even under development
as well. I just paid a few hundred dollars to get the latest
version, up to speed on the AUP... whatever...
I am a hobbiest. I really don't care about all the extended
features some people may want to use.... I have always leaned
towards the terminal side. I may just keep WINServer as a game
server, I have a load of wcx games registered.... Not sure exactly
what do do... we'll see ... Mystic has everything I want, and more,
but I talked myself out of that and paid money Santronics...

Yeah, I understand completely. I lean more toward the ANSI side of the BBS myself, which is why I put totally no work into the HTML side of my WINServer system.


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As you were told you can use a Distribution Group to send a private
message to all users you do not need wcReports.

So is this a feature built into WINServer itself (as I do not recall seeing such a feature built in, unless I overlooked it because I do not use that feature) or are you referring to wcListServe? If the latter, that's an additional package that one has to pay for.


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Hector Santos added the Distribution List option back in 2004.

Where?


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On 19 Jul 2020, Robert Wolfe said the following...

[...]

A plain text file Group List:

\wcat\disp\group1.lst

comprising a name on each line

Bob Brown
Jane Doe
John Smith

Can then be used to Address a Message TO: GROUP 1

[...]

wcBASIC and the wcBASIC PLUS pack can if desired be used to
completely customize the behavior of the ANSI Mail Interface.

This might be the best way to go, IMO. I might have to come up with some wcCODE to help out this this process :)

Keep me posted...

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's BBS
-= JoesBBS.Com =-

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
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wcBASIC and the wcBASIC PLUS pack can if desired be used to completely customize the behavior of the ANSI Mail Interface.

This might be the best way to go, IMO. I might have to come up w
wcCODE to help out this this process :)

Keep me posted...

I saved the original message Hector sent. I have not had a chance to start on anything yet as real life has been keeping me quite busy of late :) But, will probably try and get something started this weekend if at all possible.


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Joe

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Yeah, planning on adding optional signature file usage on my bbs in the message areas soon.

Thanx... I went the way of Mystic BBS though.... I have run WC5 for years.... Ths time around I have come to the oppinion that the terminal side of WINS is stuck in the 80s and 90s. I spent a couple hundred dollars to blow life back into the BBS... paid for AUP and had install disks mailed to me.

And I went with the BBS program that I talked myself out of when I sent Santronics my 200 bucks.

I'll set my WINServer up as some kind of door server because of all the games
I have registered for it.

:)

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's BBS
-=JoesBBS.com=-

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