V2.5 Changed behavior of threads and excludes. Only excludes based on FROM will take precedence over THREADs. 10/1/98 Fixed 2 very old bugs. One which would cause one of the databases to be stuck opened preventing anyone else from using BULLETIN, the other which caused READNEW behavior when logging in for folders which did not have that feature enabled. 9/20/98 V2.4 Adding the ability to change one's personal name used in postings to news groups and mail message by defining the logical name BULL_PERSONAL_NAME. 7/22/98 Added the SET GATEWAY command to change the how the subject lines looks in messages which are sent to an email address associated with a folder. 2/25/98 Many bugs were fixed, mainly with respect to the news-email-folder gateway. V2.3 Added the ability to create a folder that can post and read to a news group, and can send and read messages via email. See NEWS_TO_FOLDER.TXT for more info. 4/18/97 Added the ability for BULLETIN to see news groups from secondary news groups (see NEWS.TXT). 4/18/97 V 2.25 Changes to make it easier to click on news group name to select them: You can enter a news group name at the prompt and it will select it (without typing SELECT). News groups displayed without period at end when BULLETIN lists the ones that have new messages. NEWS/SUBS has space between * and news group when denoting which ones have new messages. 3/21/96 V 2.24 When replying to a message in a news group that has been crossposted, give the user the option of just posting the reply to the news group in which the message is being read rather than all the news groups in the crosspost. 11/20/95 Messages added to folders and stored news groups are now marked as being read so that the person does not see them when doing a READ/NEW. 11/20/95 Removed INCLUDE command and replaced it with the THREAD command. This allows you to save and easily read new messages in threads via the READ/THREADS command. 11/13/95 V 2.23 Update newest read message when switching folders. Previously this was done only when you exited BULLETIN, which would cause problems if you ran BULLETIN simultaneously from two different logins. 9/12/95 Added /LIMIT to EXCLUDE and also the SET EXLIMIT command. These allow excludes to be specified so that they expire after a specified amount of days. The SHOW EXCLUDE now will show the last time a message was found that matched the exclude. 8/16/95 Added /GROUP qualifier to DIRECTORY command to allow specifying groups to search using wild cards names. 8/3/95 Added /GROUP qualifier to SEARCH command to allow specifying groups to search using wild cards names. 6/20/95 V 2.22 Added SHOW EXCLUDE and INCLUDE commands. 5/17/95 Fixed bugs relating to messages with an expiration year past 1999. 5/17/95 Fixed EXCLUDE/FROM as it did not work. Also fixed EXCLUDE/DISABLE/ALL and INCLUDE/DISABLE/ALL, as in some cases they would not work.3/31/95 V 2.21 Modified the file format for stored news group to reduce disk space usage. 11/29/94 Added SET LIBRARY command and also /LIBRARY qualifier on the command line to allow switching between different directories which contain different sets of folders. 11/29/94 Added /HEADER to POST when posting to news groups to allow adding headers to the message. 11/9/94 Added /CANCEL to PRINT command which cancels previous print commands. 10/28/94 V 2.20 Added /FOLLOWUP to the POST command. 10/12/94 The FILE command no longer requires a file name, but will create a file name from the folder's name. 5/25/94 Allow logical names to be specified in POST/GROUP. 5/12/94 Added SET FILE_DIRECTORY command. 5/12/94 Added /PERMANENT and /DEFAULT qualifiers to NEWS command. 4/28/94 Added SET SUBSCRIBE command to allow setting default or permanent news groups. 4/26/94 Added code to mail rejected posting for a stored news group to poster. 4/6/94 Optimized newsgroup list upgrade to reduce disk I/O which greatly reduces elapsed time for slow or fragmented disks. 4/5/94 Modified /EDIT so EDT error no longer shows "no file found" message. 4/5/94 Added SET NAME command to copy settings, used if username is changed. 3/28/94 Modified SEARCH command to avoid updating new message counter (in order to be able to follow a thread and still use READ/NEW later). 3/26/94 Added /INDENT=string to allow different indentation string. 3/12/94 Added ability to allow BULLCP to gateway for NEWS access via TCP (for MULTINET only). 2/24/94 Fix FROM header for news groups messages that have an address which continues on a 2nd line. 12/17/93 V 2.19 Add /MATCH qualifier to SEARCH command, and allow more than 1 string to be specified. 12/2/93 Fixed the qualifer /CC when posting or resonding to messages. It was supposed to be able to send to more than one user, but actually was sending to only the first user specified. 7/17/93 Fixed alpha related problems. 7/16/93 Fixed problem with responding to addresses of form: name
. 7/2/93 Fixed shutdown bugs. 6/6/93 Fixed /PRINT and /EXTRACT in DIRECTORY when used with a remote news group. 5/29/93 System messages which have longer lines than the terminal page width will have their text left justified rather than simply wrapped. 5/28/93 Added SET [NO]EXCLUDE command to be able to ignore any excludes or includes that have been specified for that folder. 5/20/93 V 2.18 Added /FULL to EXCLUDE and INCLUDE command to make it affect all commands, such as directory listings. 5/13/93 Fixed bug which displayed wrong foldername for notification broadcasts for messages added to bboard folders with digest set. 5/13/93 Fixed bug which caused FOR003.DAT files to appear in DECNET directory due to BBOARD folder which has digest set. 5/10/93 Fixed problem with inserting correct time when posting to news group. 5/5/93 Fixed problem with BULL_DIR_LIST usage. 5/5/93 Fixed shutdown problems. 5/3/93 Fixed new executable message. 5/3/93 Fixed bugs which caused FOR00x.DAT files to appear in DECNET directory during access from remote nodes. 4/29/93 V 2.17 Modified to work for ALPHA cpus. 4/5/93 Speeded up DIRECTORY listing. 3/18/93 Fixed FORWARD command from truncating subject lengths > 64. 3/18/93 V 2.16 Add code which causes nodename of remote folders to automatically be updated when the bulletin data files of the node containing the remote folders are moved to a different node. 3/12/93 Fix incorrect display of NEWS/SUBSCRIBE/COUNT. 3/6/93 In batch mode, paging is now automatically turned off and page width set to 80. 3/5/93 Fixed problem with shutdown messages not being deleted. 3/4/93 V 2.15 Code that converts data files if FOLDER_MAX is increased did not work. 2/27/93 NEWS/SUBS now shows last read message. INDEX now shows listing similar to DIR/FOLDER and NEWS. 2/27/93 A user can make /HEADER be made the default for a folder or news group by adding a line to the user's customization file. (See HELP custom) 2/21/93 Personal names which are set in VMS MAIL are now automatically added to the from address when posting to news groups. 2/15/93 Fixed bug which caused only partial storage of specified local news groups. 2/5/93 Fixed bug that caused privilege error and crash to occur after a non-privileged user posted a message to a folder which had an associated mailing list. 2/5/93 V 2.14 Added SET ANONYMOUS command so that all messages added to a folder will have the username ANONYMOUS rather than the actual username. 2/1/93 Added /EXTRACT qualifie to DIRECTORY command. 1/31/93 Added notification of new executable and possible new features. 1/26/93 Dump log files are now created with acl for folder owner to be able to delete it. 1/26/93 V 2.13 Fixed bug in BBOARD code that corrupts file length. 1/15/93 Fixed notification messages that showed wrong folder name. 1/15/93 Added /[NO]HEADER and /ROTATE to NEXT (help said they were there, but they weren't). 1/15/93 Added RESET command. 1/9/93 Fixed bug in posting to stored news group by non-privileged users. 12/28/92 V 2.12 Fixed SET ACCESS /ALL which broke due to changes in V 2.11. 12/28/92 Fixed problem with reply posting to stored news group not posting to proper group. 12/28/92 Added code to allow setting access to news group or class of news groups. Added /PRIVATE switch to SET NEWS. Added /CLASS to SET ACCESS. 12/26/92 Fixed bug in code that does copying from news group to folder. 12/26/92 Added INCLUDE and EXCLUDE commands which allow avoiding reading messages based on subject and address headers. 12/15/92 Fixed bug which caused folder corruption. 12/15/92 V 2.11 Added SET NEWS command. Used for setting a news group or a class of news groups to be stored on disk for quicker access by users (rather than being read by users directly from the server). Can also disable access to a group. Users can set NOTIFY on stored groups. 11/5/92 NEWS command now by default shows only groups which are active. Can show all groups with /ALL command. /STORED and /COUNT are new qualifiers. 11/5/92 Stored news groups are stored with data compression. Normal folders can also be stored that way if set with the SET COMPRESS command. 11/5/92 INDEX command modified to make it more useful. /NEW is now the default, and now only shows folders or groups that have new messages. /SET added to show only folders which have READNEW, SHOWNEW, or BRIEF set, and /SET is the default. 11/5/92 Fixed bug with BROADCAST routines which could cause BULLCP to go into MWAST state. 11/5/92 Modified code which adds BBOARD messages to speed it up when multiple messages are being added. 11/5/92 Folder names can now be up to 44 letters long. 11/5/92 BULL_BBOARD_UPDATE and BULL_NEWS_UPDATE are now continuously translated by BULLCP so that they can be changed dynamically. 11/5/92 BULLCP now is created with reasonable working quotas rather than PQL_ defaults which are usually way too low. 11/5/92 Changed all variables to be long word multiples in order to be more ALPHA compliant (and maybe faster because of it?). 11/5/92 /ROTATE added for read commands to allow reading messages encoded in ROT-13 coding. This is used by some news groups to display messages which could be taken as being offensive (i.e. rec.humor.funny). 11/5/92 Fixed many minor bugs that no one mentioned, so I won't either. 11/5/92 Fixed ADD/BROADCAST/EDIT not working with TPU. 8/13/92 V 2.10 Allow non-digest messages to be added to a folder which has DIGEST set. 8/6/92 Added ADD_ONLY attribute. If a mailing address is present, when messages are added to a folder, they will also be mailed to the address. Users are prevented from using the POST command. Instead, the ADD command will be used if the POST command is entered. One use for this is a local board which is also distributed to non-local users. 8/1/92 Added POST_ONLY attribute This causes the ADD command to mail messages to the mailing address if it is present, rather than add it to the folder. 8/1/92 Fixed several shutdown bugs. 7/23/92 Fixed PMDF broken by V2.09. 6/16/92 Added system logical name BULL_CUSTOM. It is equated to a hex number string. Bit 0 set = need privileges to create folder, 1 set = captive account can write files, 2 set = captive account can use editor. 5/25/92 V 2.09 Allow having more than one database by redefining BULL_DIR. However, only directories that are defined in the list of equivalence names pointed to by the system logical name BULL_DIR_LIST are allowed. See AAREADME.TXT for more info. 5/10/92 GENERAL folder can now be renamed or modified (not deleted). 4/22/92 /FROM, /NOREPLIES, & /NEGATED added to SEARCH and DIRECTORY commands. 3/18/92 Mail routines now use MAIL$ calls for outgoing mail for faster execution. 3/15/92 Changing keypad definitions using initialization file now possible. 3/12/92 Subscribed news groups are now listed in alphabetical order. 3/7/92 V 2.08 Fixed bug which caused missing news groups. See NEWS.TXT for info. 2/25/92 Allow setting local protection on remote folders. 12/12/91 Fixed bug with creation of folder files. If they were deleted after the folder was created, the files that would be created by BULLETIN to replace them (when the folder is selected) would be created with the wrong protection. 12/12/91 Fix problem with MULTINET V3.0 and DECNET/NEWS gateway feature. BULLCP will hang without this fix if there is an attempt to read news via it. 12/9/91 Fix bug that causes incorrect time on news postings after the first post. Display time when reading news messages in local rather than GMT time. 12/8/91 Add 30 second timeout for connecting to nameserver for news. Can be increased up to 99 seconds via defining BULL_NEWS_TIMER. 12/3/91 Allow list of numbers when specifying message numbers for PRINT and FILE commands. 11/27/91 Fixed bugs in BBOARD code: Messages with lines > 255 characters would not be included. Subject line not correctly extracted if next line was simply a To:. (relink PMDF driver if using PMDF for patch to take affect). 11/27/91 V 2.07 NEWS listing now shows the status of the news group, i.e. active, inactive, moderated, or renamed. 10/23/91 Fixed PRINT command so that if a print qualifier (i.e. /QUEUE) is specified, it will cause any pending print jobs to be printed if the qualifier for the pending jobs is different. 10/23/91 Added /NOSIGNATURE qualifier for POST & RESPOND commands. 10/21/91 Fixed error in POST & RESPOND command. If a file was specified on the command line, and /EDIT was specified, the file would be sent even if the user quit out of the edit, rather than exitting (i.e. outputting a file). 10/21/91 Fixed REPLY option in READNEW, as it was possible for users with only read access to a folder to be able to add REPLY messages. 10/10/91 Add REPLY option to READNEW feature when reading messages. Also, really fix the REPLY command, as mentioned in V2.06. 8/11/91 V 2.06 Added code to keep track of which messages have been read a per message basis. Added SEEN & UNSEEN commands. Added /SEEN, /UNSEEN, and /UNMARKED to DIRECTORY, INDEX, READ, and SELECT commands. Modified directory listing to indicate which messages have been SEEN. 7/31/91 Added /NOW to PRINT command. Messages no longer have to be printed one message at a time. It now works identical to VMS MAIL. 7/31/91 Added code to NEWS users when new groups have been created. User will be alerted when selecting a news group that new groups are present, and will be instructed to type NEWS/NEWGROUP in order to see them. 7/31/91 Added /PRINT to DIRECTORY command to allow printing of messages which are found by using the DIRECTORY command. 7/31/91 Modified directory listing display so that the first and last message in the folder are now displayed at the top. Fixed bug which truncated very large news group names. 7/31/91 Added FIRST command to read first message found in folder. 7/31/91 Modified REPLY command for folders associated with mailing lists, so that the reply message to the mailing list rather than adding a local message. 7/31/91 Modified code to correctly store subject headers from BBOARD mail which are more than one line long. Previously, the subject would be truncated. 6/18/91 V 2.05 The MARK code was modified to work with NEWS folders. 6/3/91 Added /FOLDER=(folder,[...]) to the SEARCH command to allow searching more than one folder at a time. 6/13/91 NEWS/SUBSCRIBED listing was fixed. If the list could not fit on a single page, a folder was skipped when the next page was shown. 6/3/91 INDEX was fixed. If it was used with the qualifiers /NEW or /MARK, and the directory listing of a folder was displayed, and then RETURN is entered to skip to the next folder, the directory display of the next folder would be incorrect. 6/3/91 Fixed broadcast bug. If a message was added with /BROADCAST to a remote folder from a node in a cluster which was not the node that BULLCP was running on. The broadcast would appear twice on the cluster. 5/24/91 Added code to alert user if message too large to be fully broadcasted. 5/24/91 Added code to avoid erroneous notifications of new messages for an empty NEWS group. Unlike a similar fix in V2.03 which was due to a bug, this fix may not affect all sites, as it depends on the behavior of the server. 5/22/91 Fixed NEWS to FOLDER feed. A recent change broke it. 5/22/91 Added /EDIT qualifier for MAIL. 5/20/91 Added /HEADER qualifier for LAST, BACK, and CURRENT commands. 5/19/91 Added TWG (Wollongong) interface for NEWS. 5/18/91 Fixed bug which truncated subject headers of messages created when using REPLY and RESPOND to messages which have long subject lines. 5/12/91 V2.04 Added ALWAYS attribute for folders. Any SYSTEM messages in a folder in which ALWAYS has been set will be displayed every time a user logs in, rather than just once. Also, non-SYSTEM messages will be displayed continuously (via whatever mode is set, i.e. READNEW, SHOWNEW, or BRIEF) until it is actually read. 4/29/91 Added capability of controlling the time between updates for BBOARD and NEWS in BULLCP by defining the logical names BULL_BBOARD_UPDATE or BULL_NEWS_UPDATE to the number of minutes of desired time in minutes. 4/27/91 Added /GROUPS= qualifier to all commands which post to NEWS groups. 4/26/91 Fixed bug which prevented SET SHOWNEW or READNEW from working with subscribed news group folders. 4/25/91 V2.03 Added /FOLDER to SHOW USER in order to show the latest message that a user has read in the specified folder. Also added /SINCE and /START (the former for real folders, the latter for news groups). 4/11/91 Fixed logic so that defining BULL_NEWS_ORGANIZATION will override the definition defined in BULLNEWS.INC. 4/10/91 Fixed SEARCH command, as it broke in V2.02 when /EDIT was added to read message commands. There is a missing QUALIFIER EDIT in BULLCOM.CLD for the SEARCH verb. /EDIT now works with SEARCH. 4/9/91 Fixed bug in BULLCP which prevented the DECNET/INTERNET NEWS gateway software from working with UCX. 4/9/91 Fixed bug caused by V2.00 which caused incorrect listing of message during BULL/LOGIN for remote folders. 4/3/91 Fixed bugs which caused erroneous new message notifications for subscribed NEWS groups that were empty. 3/27/91 V 2.02 Include BBOARD support for MX (courtesy of goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet). Changed BBOARD algorithm so that it is now possible to have only one real BBOARD account, and have all the others be VMS MAIL forwarding entries. See HELP SET BBOARD MORE_INFO for more info (it's been updated). Added hook to allow postings from BULLETIN to a LISTSERV mailing list to use the BBOARD account from it was subscribed to. See HELP SET BBOARD LISTSERV. Fixed many bugs in POST, REPLY, and RESPOND. Fixed /ALL for COPY, PRINT, and EXTRACT when using NEWS groups. Included RMS optimizer procedure for indexed files to optimize BULLNEWS.DAT to speed up NEWS updates. Can be used on other files (in particular BULLINF.DAT) in order to save space. Add /EDIT to BACK, NEXT, LAST, and when entering message number. Modify ADD/REPLY command to local (non-NEWS) folders so if there are new messages present, it doesn't reset the newest message count. Previously, adding a message would reset the user's last read message date to that message in order to avoid notifying the user of new messages due to the user's own message. Fixed code so that when reading new messages, and if READ/EDIT or DELETE/IMMED- IATE IS entered, a carriage return will read the next new message. Previously the wrong message would be displayed. V 2.01 Fixed many bugs associated with USENET NEWS reading feature. Added UCX interface for NEWS. Added signature file for POST and RESPOND messages. Added capability to specify file name for POST, REPLY, and RESPOND. Added the line "In a previous message, wrote:" to the beginning of a message when /EXTRACT is specified Added hook for network mail to run command procedure rather then using VMS MAIL. BULL_MAILER can be defined to point to the procedure, and it is called with the username and subject as the parameters. V 2.00 Added USENET NEWS reading feature. V 1.93 Fixed bug which wouldn't allow a permanent message to be added by a non-privileged user in a remote folder (the folder had been setup to allow permanent messages from non-privileged users, of course). Fixed bug which causes the DELETE command not to delete a SHUTDOWN message without the use of /IMMEDIATE. Fixed the algorithm which prevented duplicate notification of messages in remote folders on different nodes, as duplication was still possible. V 1.92 Fixed bug which causes BULLCP to loop when trying to cleanup a folder which has more than 127 identifiers granted access to a folder. Also correct SHOW FOLDER/FULL, which had a similar problem when trying to display the identifiers. Fix PMDF interface to recognize to recognize PMDF_PROTOCOL. V 1.91 Disallow SPAWN command for CAPTIVE account. Fix MAIL command to correctly allow passing addresses with quotes, i.e. IN%"""MRL@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU""". V 1.90 SET NOTIFY now works for remote folders. Avoid generating notification message due to SET NOTIFY flag if the message was broadcasted when added using ADD/BROADCAST. Bug in DIR/SINCE for remote folders fixed. If no new messages were present, it would incorrectly show messages. Added /FF to EXTRACT command to seperate messages in the file with form feeds. Allow specifying CURRENT and LAST when specifying a range of messages for commands that accept a range, i.e. EXTRACT 1-CURRENT, CURRENT-LAST, etc. Open folder files with READONLY when not writing to them in order to avoid changing modification date, which results in unnecessary backups. Modify HELP so that it won't prompt for Subtopic is there is none. Prevent screen from being erased after exiting HELP. Fix bug which causes CREATE/NOTIFY to crash. SET NOTIFY/CLUSTER has been removed. As of VMS V5.2, it is possible to obtain the list of users logged in to all nodes of a cluster, so this qualifier is no long necessary. NOTE: You can delete all the BULL_DIR:*.NOTIFY files, as they are no longer used. BULLETIN now will use the editor specified by the SET EDITOR command within MAIL for editing messages. Typing BACK after typing a DIRECTORY command will now show the previous DIRECTORY display entries rather than reading the previous message. Several bugs related to the MARK command were fixed. Also the software has been optimized so that scanning for MARKed messages should take less time. /EXPIRATION added to DIRECTORY command to show expiration rather than creation date of messages. Any BULLETIN interactive command can be executed at DCL level by typing BULLETIN "command" or BULLETIN "command1;command2;etc.". The CHANGE command has been modified so a range of message can be specified, i.e. /NUMBER=1-10. Also, the code incorrectly misinterpreted /TEXT as meaning to extract the old text message, whereas it should have meant that only the text was to be changed. This prevented a user from specifying that only the text should be changed if that user didn't have editing enabled. This has been fixed. To eliminate confusing, the /TEXT qualifier on the ADD command has been removed (previously it was a synonym for /EXTRACT). SHOW FOLDER/FULL display of access IDs was fixed to correctly display UICs. Removed security hole which occurs if you are using the old method of accessing a remote node via /NODES (it would have required looking a the sources to find, which one installer did and was worried about). Because of this, if you use this old method (i.e. via BULLETIN.COM), the object BULLETIN must be installed in the NCP database pointing to the file BULLETIN.COM, i.e. the command "MCR NCP SET BULLETIN FILE directory:BULLETIN.COM NUMBER 0" must be executed during the system startup. Fixed bug in /LOGIN display when erasing page if terminal is hardcopy. No page would be erased (of course), and the next line outputted would start where the previous line left off, rather than starting on a new line. Added BULLETIN/WIDTH=page_width for users who have BULLETIN/LOGIN in their login procedure before the terminal is known, and whose default page width is larger (i.e. 132) than what the terminals are (i.e. 80). Added BULLETIN/PGFLQUOTA and /WSEXTENT in order to set those quotas for the BULLCP process. Added ATTACH command. Modify SET STRIP so that it saves the date that the message was sent and leaves it at the to of the message. BULLETIN will search BBOARD message headers for a line that starts with "Expires:" or "X-Expires:", followed by a date (DD MMM YYYY or similar). It if finds that line, it will use that date as the expiration date of the message. Added /REPLY to SEARCH command. Modified so that it's possible to abort out of a /SUBJECT or /REPLY search using CTRL-C (previous possible only if searching the text for a string. Also, if you hit CTRL-C at the wrong time, BULLETIN would abort totally rather than just aborting the search). Added /SEARCH= /SUBJ= and /REPLY to the DIRECTORY command. Basically this is combining the DIRECTORY and SEARCH commands. Fixed design flaw which allowed the following to occur: If a folder is a remote system folder, when BULLETIN/LOGIN was executed, the same messages might be displayed on both the local and remote nodes. BULLETIN now will know that the user has seen the message on one node and will not display it if that user logs in on the other node. Optimized code which caused slow display of new messages when executing BULLETIN/LOGIN without /REVERSE for a remote folder. Added /PERMANENT to SET NOTIFY, SHOWNEW, BRIEF, and READNEW. The affect is that users will not be allowed to change the setting. The main intent here was to allow the removal ofthe permanent setting of SHOWNEW from the GENERAL folder. Fixed bug which would cause a SYSTEM message not to be shown if SET BRIEF was selected for that folder, and a non-SYSTEM message was also present. Added SET CONTINUOUS_BRIEF. This causes the SET BRIEF setting to show that there are unread new messages every time BULLETIN/LOGIN is executed, rather than just the one time. The BRIEF notification code has also been optimized so that it'll take less time to notify you of new messages. A major bug was fixed which was introduced in previous mods to speed up BULLETIN/LOGIN. The effect is that no notifications will appear for certain folders via BULLETIN/LOGIN. This would only happen if a folder was removed at some time.