On Sat, 12 Oct 2013, Janis Kracht wrote to mark lewis:

> i am, however, curious about you statement... what do you meain by
"limited > replace line support"??

 JK> Yes, same here 

maybe we'll see an answer soonish ;)

>> and if one have archive bbs, it might be complete ignored

> very true! ;)  i once lost years of files that had been 
> distributed... most of those were lost due to aging off which was 
> handled quite quickly... others, as you note, were replaced... either 
> by newer versions with a different name or by others with the same 
> name... different named ones are easy enough to deal with
> but same named ones present a different problem to deal with :?

 JK> I think the only files I've "lost" were due to my own sillyness..

yeah, i've done that too... in my case, i had originally set up so that
files were retained for at least a year... maybe two or three... when i
finally realized that the FDN wasn't distributing files any more, it was
too late and i had to go hunt down whatever i could find... that was the
fernwood stuff... at that time i reconfigured for no aging off of files and
i'm not sure, at the moment, about the REPLACE verb being honored... i have
to look to see but a better option would be for REPLACE to trigger a move
of the file being replaced to an archivial directory...

 JK> like fat-fingering "rm * ~" Lol.. yes, that was nasty..

i can imagine!

 JK> I have a safe del too, that I never use haha.. 

alias it to rm ;)

 JK> anyway, I can't think of a time when a tick caused any files I 
 JK> didn't want cleaned up to be deleted..

me either...

)\/(ark