On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> we don't know and we don't (yet) have any clue as to why it 
 ml> happened... with my live archivial (3 years retention) setup, i 
 ml> definitely would not want to switch my main system from FE to 
 ml> FMail if it meant losing 3 years of posts...

 WvV> It would be a great test case! ;)

 WvV> So please try it on a backup of your message base... ;)

hahaha... IF it gets done, it won't even be done on the same machine... see
the following short form stats report accurate as of my last mail toss
session on the main system ;)

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JAMStat v0.10beta - Copyright 1993-2006 Mark Lewis, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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JAM Base Numerical Statistics

JAM Bases Located   : 262
Active JAM Messages : 208858

Message Bodies    .JDT : 339145523 bytes (331.197 megs)
Message Headers   .JHR : 120205253 bytes (117.388 megs)
Message Indexes   .JDX : 1670864 bytes (1.632 megs)
LastRead Pointers .JLR : 12880 bytes (0.013 megs)
=============================================================================
Complete Jam Base Size : 461034520 bytes (450.229 megs)

Largest Jam Area -
  Size : [FIDO] COOKING 28512 msgs 59.375 megs
  Msgs : [FIDO] COOKING 28512 msgs 59.375 megs
[/quote]

yeah, the trick, then, is how to get them off the machine in the first
place if i did want to do any testing and playing around...

)\/(ark

One of the great tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a
gang of brutal facts. --Benjamin Franklin

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