-=> Quoting Bob Lawrence to John Tserkezis <=-

Hello Bob,

 JT> That is ok for an end user, but if you do this as a mail hub,
 JT> it drags things on for too long a time.

 BL> It's the same problem, actually. Tossing, duping and all that should
 BL> take the longest time, so you can hide the archiving on the end.

 Since I've cut down on my mail base, I only keep a full message base on a few
echos, and only keep the last month on all the others, I've cut my nightly
event from 20+ minutes to about 6 minutes.  The archiving bit actually takes
a bit of time though, I *could* cheat, and not have all my mail packed like
it is now, but then I would end up with a million files in my outbound instead
of 10 average.
 
 BL> That's the beauty of Windows and event driven code. If you can
 BL> keep the processing under 100mS you don't even notice it... so
 BL> you tag all the long stuff onto whatever is unavoidably too
 BL> long (like loading the EXE file itself).
 
 JT> Windows makes me ill. That's why I'm back in the electronics
 JT> industry. I can use my OS of choice, I don't have to worry
 JT> about if I know windows or not. 

 BL> Windows works. If Win95, OS/2 or Unix ever becomes dominant, then
 BL> I'll use that. Who cares as long as it works? It's silly to ignore the
 BL> dominant force in a marketplace.

 Fuck windows.  Any of my apps that NEED windows will get trashed now.  I
wash my hands of it all.  I'm not going to let that gates character decide
what is best for me.
 Yeah, it's going to take me a while to move everything over, and learing c++
might take most of my time, but at least I'll confuse myself in style. :-)

John Tserkezis, Sydney, Oz. Fidonet: 3:712/610  Internet: jt{at}suburbia.com.au

... I'm not a complete idiot - several parts are missing.
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