-=> Quoting Sean Rima to Nancy Backus on 05-31-11  09:23 <=-

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

I thought the oddest bit was that it did only happen at one of the 8
bbses I call.  Maybe some of them also have a "bad date" check, so that
something as old as these messages were doesn't get accepted?
 
 >> And it is very quiet here
 > I see that the dump seems to have generated some new life, anyway... :)

 SR> It sure did lol

For the time being... ;)

ttyl      neb

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