Hello Wilfred,

On 22 Nov 16 15:42, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 WV> It was a thought. But not very viable as a quick sollution, on second
 WV> thoughts.

 WV> The quick sollution will be using the windows configuration program
 WV> for editing the configuration files for the linux version.

Ah yes. I remember this option as well.

 WV> FMail adds a "RESCANNED" kludge line to rescannend
messages but that's
 WV> not a documented standard afaik. And I don't know any software,
 WV> including FMail, that considers it when tossing incoming pkt files.

I believe HPT adds that same kludge line, but I'm unsure as to whether or
not it actually honors it.

 WV> It's up to the sysop of the receiving system, to make sure to
"unlink"
 WV> other systems from areas before requesting a rescan. Rescan is a
 WV> "dangerous" function, where one needs to know what one is doing! So
 WV> FMail even has the option to turn off rescan functionality for
 WV> individual links...

That's why I just didn't bother. I don't really care about the retention so
much. It will build itself back up eventually. And this time around, I
think I'll be weeding out the ones with no traffic for 6 months, so I can
trim down to a more manageable number of echos.

I had though the NAB (or Ross since he takes care of the backbone.na) did
this at one time, but I haven't seen anything lately.

Regards,
Nick

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