On 2019 Feb 15 10:48:06, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 ON> True for Fidonet - however, other networks I am on push hundreds of
 ON> messages per poll. But, I only poll them 2 or 3 times a day - and they are
 ON> extremely active. No problem.

imagine what it'll be like when you get a """real
setup""" going (J/K!) where you are in a "crash me,
crash you" configuration such that pkts and tics/files are processed
immediately on arrival... my old system used to process mail once an hour
before it became a tier 1 mail hub... it spent a lot of time processing
mail... especially since it was also only 800Mhz... my new setup processes
the mail and files as soon as they come in... "WOW!" doesn't even
begin to cover the experiance of seeing messages come in, being fully
processed, and sent out to all my linked systems in less than 30 seconds...
i have some stats around here somewhere that i need to figure out how to
process and look at in a more human readable format...

i haven't seen changes in speed like that since going from a 486-40 to a
200mhz pentium ii and then again from the pii to 800mhz whatever cpu i was
running... that system didn't want to come back up after Hurricane Florence
came through here so i had a choice... stay offline or set up a new
system... i finally decided to make another VM and install a new setup
there... it is ubuntu server 18.04 LTS with no GUI crap on it... i ended up
choosing synchronet BBS (aka sbbs) for the job over a few others that i had
looked at... it has performed admirably here and as i get more used to it,
i can contribute fixes back upstream or make mods available for others if
they want them... i couldn't really do that before... plus it gives me
something to do during this downtime until the weather clears and
construction jobs come back to life...

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