Date   : Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:48:52 +0100
From   : philb@... (Phil Blundell)
Subject: Plans for the Econet Island @,Acorn World 09?

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 00:07 +0100, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > Message-ID: <1250886675.7285.9.camel@...>
>  
> Steven Flintham wrote:
> > > For the Master, which I think may be what you asking for, you need *SET,
> and
> > 
> > Really sorry if this is a dumb question, but why isn't it just a
> > *CONFIGURE option on the Master? I used to own one but although I've
>  
> Absolutely utterly incredibly NO!!!! Do you really want people on a
> network able to change their station number at a whim? 

Not that this protection helps all that much, of course: anybody who
wants to change their station or net number temporarily can do so on a
Master by just poking the soft-copy in RAM (whereas that didn't work
very well on the BBC).  But at least the facility to do so isn't
advertised, I guess.

p.