[Ftnpl-develop] More Updates

[Russ J. <ru...@di...>]

I made more changes to pkt2txt. It now creates a sorted area list, and the 
pages have links to the previous and next message, as well as the message 
list and the area list. I think I'll need to rename this thing. It's not 
just making text files. :)

I also need some suggestion on how to gracefully handle the last message. 
It's ugly when you hit the "next" link on the last message.

I'm also thinking about the maintenance end of things. I'm thinking we 
should set a configurable maximum number of messages in an area. While 
tossing, it's not hard to get rid of old messages. The hard part will be 
removing the line from the index.html file. I want to start on that part, 
but I haven't puzzled out how it will work.

Another thing to puzzle over is entering new messages. I was thinking new 
messages should be written to a packet, and then tossed during the next 
run. Making the packet should mostly be done for us, in the other perl 
source we have.

I only want authenticated users to be able to post, however, apache should 
be able to handle that. I suppose that too should be configurable. I do 
not, however, want to make it too easy to pollute fido with crap. :)

Russ Johnson
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