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     This PCB 15.21 PPE when placed in your event processing, lets you send
     automated posts either daily, weekly or monthly. It is perfect for BBS
     advertisements in various networks you carry, or sending network rules
     in your networks on the 1st of the month, or whatever you find use for
     it to do. AutoPost places the date and time in the tagline  so none of
     your posts will be killed off  as a "duplicate" of any previous posts.

     One message is supported in the unregistered version.  When registered
     AutoPost can support an *unlimited* number of messages! The tagline it
     creates is hardcoded. It is done that way so that the date/time can be
     used for prevention of deltion as duplicates.

     Installation of AutoPost is the easiest part of all. Place AutoPost in
     your event using "PCBOARD /PPE:D:\PPE\AP\AUTOPOST.PPE" as your command
     line after changing to your  PCBoard directory.  Of course, change the
     above paths to whatever your actual location of AutoPost is.

     Then you place the AUTOPOST.CNF file in your AutoPost directory.  This
     file has only three lines and a sample is shown below.
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     ³ Intelec Online  ³ <- Your BBS name
     ³ 00000           ³ <- Your reg number or 00000 if unregistered
     ³ 00000           ³ <- Validation code or 00000 if unregistered
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     Configuring the AutoPost "List" File. (Must be called AUTOPOST.LST)
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     ³ 2               ³ <- Total Number of Post Files in this list
   * ³ TOP (or) BOTTOM ³ <- TOP puts tag at top of post, BOTTOM at bottom
     ³ ================³ <- A Blank or Spacing Line (not used)
     ³ BBS-AD          ³ <- Name of Text file for message # 1 (No Extensions!)
     ³ WEEKLY          ³ <- Send this post DAILY, WEEKLY or MONTHLY  *
     ³ 0               ³ <- WEEKLY 0=Sunday 6=Saturday / MONTHLY #=day of month
     ³ 22 132 288 420  ³ <- Conference number(s) to send this message to
     ³ ALL             ³ <- To Whom
     ³ CLIFF WATKINS   ³ <- From Whom
     ³ Intelec Online  ³ <- Subject Line
     ³ N               ³ <- N=Public R=Receiver Only
     ³ 0               ³ <- 0=No Pack Date ...or... ## of days til PackOut
     ³ 0               ³ <- 0=No Return Receipt  1=Return Receipt Wanted
     ³ 1               ³ <- 0=No Echo  1=Echoed
     ³ ================³ <- A Blank or Spacing Line (not used)
     ³ RULES           ³ <- Repeat as above for message #2.
     ³ MONTHLY         ³ <-       "               "
     ³ 1               ³ <-       "               "
     ³ 25              ³ <-       "               "
     ³ ALL             ³ <-       "               "
     ³ CLIFF WATKINS   ³ <-       "               "
     ³ Network Rules   ³ <-       "               "
     ³ N               ³ <-       "               "
     ³ 0               ³ <-       "               "
     ³ 0               ³ <-       "               "
     ³ 1               ³ <-       "               "
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     As mentioned for line 3 of the message list file, do NOT use extensions
     on your AD file names. AutoPost will NOT function properly if you do...

     When configuring a message file for DAILY posting, the line below it
     should be left blank as it is not used. That line below is only used
     for messages configured for WEEKLY or MONTHLY postings.

   * This is new in version 4.2, you must add either TOP or BOTTOM on this
     line. It will determine if the tag goes at the top or bottom of the
     post. It seems some software only checks the first few lines of a post
     to determine if it is a duplicate. This way, with the AutoPost tagline
     at the top, messages will not be viewed as duplicates.

     For SysOps upgrading from v3.9 or earlier, you will notice that the
     FILENAME.TAG (????????.TAG) file is no longer there. AutoPost doesn't
     need to keep these files any longer since it is now up to you to only
     run AutoPost once a day...

     That's it, AutoPost is configured and ready to go.  All you have to do
     is create the above file,  make the corresponding text files  for your
     msgs and you are done. Oh, all files must reside in the PPE directory.