Hello Mauro!

** On Monday 08.03.21 - 18:11, you wrote to me:

 AA>> Ya.. but the 5000 "limit" is a whole lot more than any one QWK
 AA>> could ever carry..

 MV>      Nope.  :-) By curiosity before writing this reply, I
 MV>      set my system's QWK message pointers for the year 2001
 MV>      in all areas and downloaded a monster package of 28MB
 MV>      as 100000 messages.  Some areas with more than 20000
 MV>      messages, and worked fine on BlueWave and Multimail.

I stand corrected.  QWK and BW's apparent unlimited capacity  
seems to be pretty good then.

You could probably even just leave everything in those formats  
and just use something like winrar to S)earch within the files  
within the archives. I find winrar's ability to do that very  
handy at times.

 MV>      It is not practical.  Any search takes too long.  But
 MV>      it shows that the QWK/BW system has the ability to
 MV>      handle with bigger data.

Sempoint, for example, would provide a nicer presentation for  
that whole lookup proceedure.  When you find the message you  
need, you are ready to steal the tagline, compose a reply, save/ 
print the message, copy it to another area, etc.
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