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echo: locsysop
to: Paul Edwards
from: Alan Whitemore
date: 1993-07-30 14:31:06
subject: point

PE>The packets that you receive from me are equivalent of the QWK packets. They
PE>are distinct.  However, what TOSS does, is take the packet,
PE>and put it into your messagebase.  It deletes the packet as
PE>it does this.  Your messagebase is added to all the time,
PE>and nothing is deleted from it.  If you want to delete
PE>messages, you can either do it manually with golded, or
PE>delete whole blocks with fmail.  ftools from memory does
PE>the job.  BFN.

So basically when you mention one of the pre-reqs of a point as being
30Megs, that's basically to allow for a largish messagebase rather than
the system files.

Alan..
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