Hello Paul!



31 Jul 93 09:47, Paul Edwards wrote to Alan Whitemore:



 AW>> So basically when you mention one of the pre-reqs of a point as being

 AW>> 30Megs, that's basically to allow for a largish messagebase rather

 AW>> than the system files.



 PE> Not really.  BTW, I thought the figure I mentioned was 15 meg.  After

 PE> you've downloaded the nodelist, got that in one directory, copied it to a

 PE> scratch directory to see what's there, and then expanded it, and then

 PE> copied it into the Frontdoor directory, and realised it's not meant to go

 PE> there, either, copied it into the nodelist directory, compiled it,

 PE> expanded all the frontdoor stuff, all the fmail stuff, do I want to look

 PE> at Remote Access, better not delete any messages in this messagebase so

 PE> that I can do some tests, I didn't want people to have the added

 PE> frustration of having to resort to floppies. It's hard enough as it is.

 PE> Of course you can strip it down later.  You don't actually need the

 PE> nodelist, you could get away with just a couple of lines, don't need the

 PE> frontdoor doco, archive all the other stuff to floppy, delete all messages

 PE> more than 2 days old.



 PE> The 15 meg is my *opinion*.  For the interest of everyone else here, what

 PE> is your opinion?  You are the first person to go "by the
point.txt", what

 PE> is your impression?  Any updates to it?  BFN.



All up it's taking about 9 megs, although the msgbase is expanding rapidly,
and 15 meg would seem be a fairly reasonable recommendation.



It's probably a bit early to give a detailed opinion as I'm only getting
time to browse the documention now, and I'll probably find some definite
likes and dislikes as I become more familar with the setup. Golded and FD
are enormously configurable, although the expense is that there is more of
a learning curve when compared to, say, OLX which any wombat could learn to
use. I've actually spent very little time mucking around with the setup
yet, but I'd say you need 2-3 hours of spare time. I've got to be honest
and say that I prefer a slick interface instead of manually editing a
config file, although I am going to try and get on top of golded in the
next few weeks.



Unless you have already updated it, the main thing that I think was
incorrect in point.txt was the paragraph on editing golded.tpl and adding
{at}quote & 'Alan.' This isn't needed because the default is already set
for that in 2.41. You've probably already seen the results of that, when I
signed a message Alan, then Alan.



Alan...



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