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    From Morningstarr to Kurisu on Sunday, April 19, 2026 17:07:42
    I don't really have a limit on how many times your board calls out to transfer messages. You can do it every 5 minutes for all I care lol.
  • From Kurisu@RPNET to Morningstarr on Sunday, April 19, 2026 16:33:42
    Re: network callouts
    By: Morningstarr to Kurisu on Sun Apr 19 2026 05:07 pm

    I don't really have a limit on how many times your board calls out to transfer messages. You can do it every 5 minutes for all I care lol.

    Haha, cool. I find every half hour a nice rate personally, but I'm sure you saw I was going every 15 mintues earlier.

    Part of that was to re-download packets to try to properly populate old messages which wound up in the wrong group originally. my system is still treating them as duplicates even though they've been deleted and I've ran smbutil, so I'll just let things be as they are.
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  • From Morningstarr to Kurisu on Sunday, April 19, 2026 19:45:33
    I had that problem before...it kind of just fixed itself..I tried everything, to no avail.
  • From BiggieB@JJAMBBS to Morningstarr on Sunday, April 19, 2026 20:31:45
    I don't really have a limit on how many times your board calls out to transfer messages. You can do it every 5 minutes for all I care lol.


    YAY!!! I just changed mine from 48 times a day to 96!! Woohoo! I'll probably still manually trigger polls in between the cycle!

    LOL

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  • From Morningstarr to BiggieB on Sunday, April 19, 2026 20:56:18
    HAHA why not dude? It gets the message around faster. I say the only time not to, is when you aren't on your board.
  • From BiggieB@JJAMBBS to Morningstarr on Sunday, April 19, 2026 21:51:37
    HAHA why not dude? It gets the message around faster. I say the only time not to, is when you aren't on your board.


    I usually like using my system to post messages on HobbySPC QWK because it's much faster locally using HTTP. But, the moment I submit the post I'm so excited that I manually trigger the poll just to get it up to "home base" faster. Too bad it doesn't instantly go out like SMTP or BinkP cause I'm wearing out my left mouse clicker clicking on "Force Network CallOut HOBBYSPC".
    LOL

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  • From Morningstarr to BiggieB on Sunday, April 19, 2026 22:11:57
    you can force a call-out on each post by modding your command shell.
    find the menu command for posting in your shell...something like

    "p": { eval: "bbs.post_msg()" },
    add exec ?qnet-ftp %S hobbyspc.synchro.net <your password> to the end of that line after the comma.
    It would look like this
    "p": function() {
    bbs.post_msg();
    bbs.exec("?qnet-ftp %S hobbyspc.synchro.net <yourpassword>");

    exclude the <>'s around the password
  • From Morningstarr to BiggieB on Sunday, April 19, 2026 22:15:38
    add it to default.js in your exec directory
    well don't just add it but mod it..Where you see the eval, sets the letter p up as a command.
    In the world of JavaScript (including Synchronet), eval() is a built-in function that takes a string and executes it as if it were actual code.

    I am about as dumb as it comes with java script so take it with a grain of salt.
  • From Morningstarr to BiggieB on Sunday, April 19, 2026 22:34:27
    Let me know how that mod works for ya! It should work just fine. It will force a network call out to my bbs every time someone posts.
  • From Khronos@CWSHACK to BiggieB on Monday, April 20, 2026 08:22:58
    BiggieB wrote to Morningstarr <=-

    I don't really have a limit on how many times your board calls out to transfer messages. You can do it every 5 minutes for all I care lol.

    What I see on this network is that I'd say 24 times a day during most
    hours is good.
    Between 5 pm and midnight eastern you can step up the polling as this is
    when most of the messages are posted.
    I'll probably work that out with a cron job and a touch file.


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  • From Khronos@CWSHACK to BiggieB on Monday, April 20, 2026 08:22:58
    BiggieB wrote to Morningstarr <=-

    HAHA why not dude? It gets the message around faster. I say the only time
    not
    to, is when you aren't on your board.


    I usually like using my system to post messages on HobbySPC QWK because it's much faster locally using HTTP. But, the moment I submit the post I'm so excited that I manually trigger the poll just to get it up to
    "home base" faster. Too bad it doesn't instantly go out like SMTP or
    BinkP cause I'm wearing out my left mouse clicker clicking on "Force Network CallOut HOBBYSPC". -> LOL

    There's a way to get the qwk to run after messages are posted to an area
    for qwk networks.
    Rob posted it to me last week.
    If you want to force a call out from a shell script or cron job try
    something like:
    touch /sbbs/data/qnet/HOBBYSPC.now
    This file will be removed if the task runs properly.


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