22 Nov 16 08:12, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 WV>> Linux first, JAM netmail later... ;)

 WV>> Why do you need/want that anyway? You're using GoldED!

 NB> That's what I was thinking. Unless using some sort of BBS package that
 NB> /only/ handles JAM message bases would I see that any kind of problem.

that's one aspect but then there are a lot of operators that simply prefer
one message base format over another, BBS or no...

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 NB> What I would like to know (and I was wondering the same about HPT), is
 NB> if say I were to do a rescan from another system, and I was using
 NB> either FMail or HPT, if my system would then spit that entire rescan
 NB> out to my other links?

generally speaking, yes... that's the nature of our simplistic mail
tossers... a rescan for you is OK but it will also be fed to others you
feed... the best thing would be to do the rescan if you are populating yor
local areas and then reconnect other systems... otherwise, do the rescan
and let their dupe detectors deal with the rescan... they may get some
posts they missed the first time around ;)

personally speaking, i'll do a rescan when i first connect to an area to
build the local bases... there's no one else connected at that time... if
it is an automated connection where someone has requested an area i don't
already have, we both miss out on the rescan...

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Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'
it wrong...
... I always do what the little voices tell me to do.
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