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echo: mbse
to: Andrew Leary
from: Robert Wolfe
date: 2009-09-18 17:17:46
subject: queries regarding files forwarding

>> Vince, a rescan of file areas might also be CPU-intensive as well.
>> Keep in mind that not all BBSes are Internet-connected as well.  Also,
>> other authors that write TIC processors would most likely have to
>> follow suit as well.  IMO, I think that doing a file area rescan
>> function would be more trouble than it's worth.  Too many variables to
>> even name or list here.

> Probably it would be easiest just to FTP or FREQ all of the files (including
>FILES.BBS), then drop them into the MBSE file areas directory and use mbfile t
> import them into the BBS file database.  This is actually what I'm working on
> now, to get all of the files from my old BBS into MBSE.

Andrew, this, IMO, sounds like a more reasonable, yet less resource-intense
idea and method.

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