Nancy

>>> Maybe it only affected some of us, I had messages back to 2005
>>> dumped here
>>> I only saw the dump on one of the eight bbses that I check regularly.
>>> Perhaps the others have better dupe checking and/or have saved
>>> messages from further back.  But the one had the same dump you did...
>>> it was quite a surprise for me to have suddenly a couple hundred
>>> supposedly new messages to me from what always was fairly quiet even
>>> back in those days...  :)

>> Due to a change to a 64 bit machine none of my old mailer software
>> would work, so I went back to BBBS, which resulted in a clean and
>> unpopulated message base :)

> That would certainly do it.  Not sure why it happened at the one bbs
> that I noticed it at, though... it's still on its long-standing setup as
> always... and I had thought he saved plenty of messages, but maybe not
> that far back...  :)

I think most systems will only keep a record of 6 months to a year of dupes
that way a dump will take over anyway

 >> And it is very quiet here

> I see that the dump seems to have generated some new life, anyway... :)

It sure did lol

Sean

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