Hello Paul!



 AW>> Some of the missing messages can be explained by that, but there was

 AW>> 2-3 from BillG that rod had replied to in Avtech that I had never

 AW>> seen. It's possibly finger trouble at my end.



 PE> You hadn't seen Rod's reply or Bill's message?  Rod's also needs to wait



I saw Rod's reply to a message that Bill sent to me. I never saw Bills
reply until it was quoted in Rod's message.



 PE> until the next day.  Bill's, and any other off-worlder's messages, get to

 PE> you in the most reliable way, straight from my incoming packet into your

 PE> outgoing packet. This happens as soon as I receive them.  There's no BBS

 PE> to get in the way to stuff things up either.  I dare say you were testing

 PE> out your "delete" key?  If it happens again, give me the details.



By finger trouble I meant a certain unfamiliarity with golded whereby a

message to me may simply slip by.



In OLX it's almost impossible to miss a message addressed to you but in Golded

unless you set up a separate personal area, misses can happen. I tried
adding a personal area to Golded but it's useless because you have to
change areas again to reply. Admittedly messages from or to you are
highlighted but when I'm doing a speed scan of Avtech, which I often do, it
is possible that I missed a message to me.



 PE>>> Unlikely, those limits look generous enough to me.  Why do you want

 PE>>> them to fit on a floppy?  Can't you compress them with lha
etc if you

 PE>>> want to take them to/from work?  That way you can triple what you've

 PE>>> got now. BFN.



 AW>> I take the stuff to work. copying 1 - 1.4 meg of data is slow enough

 AW>> without compressing it first, although that is an option.



 PE> Do you sit there watching it?  Can't you do it while you're brushing your

 PE> teeth?  A .bat file seems the order of the day here, and you can have

 PE> higher limits that way!  :-)  BFN.



I probably will compress, as you suggest.



Alan...



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