On 2017 Jun 17 15:42:36, you wrote to me:

 ml>> mystic supports only the JAM message base, AFAIK... squish was removed

 MM> What makes Squish not as viable in the bbs world?

squish has a few drawbacks to it that are, in general, ok but lead to
problems in some cases... the message timestamp format being one of
those... messages stored in a SQUish base have their message timestamps
adjusted to an even number... this can cause a problem in dupe detection...
especially if there's no MSGID in the message... possibly again if a system
does a rescan and the posts are all sent out to its links...

there's also the limited number of reply linking slots... there's only 10
slots, IIRC, but there may be more than 10 responses to a post so the reply
linking can get broken at some point...

there was something else, i think, but i can't recall it right now... in
any case, the author of mystic removed SQUish support for several
reasons... one was memory footprint... another was to make coding easier
and not have to worry about how each message base format works... there was
possibly another one or two, as well... it has been a while but i think
these were the two main ones...

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