RN> But would you agree it is useless to keep the robot message areas
RN> such as FIDO-REQ and the like?  

 RW> OH yeah, I purge them on what might be an extremely low
 RW> count, as with squish bases squish doesn't purge by date on
 RW> the fly, so the number is extremely low, like 50 messages.

i'm not aware of any system that purges on the fly by date... only by
numbers... the problem with that is that, for instance, if you have the
number set for 50 and you get 100 new ones, then you loose all of them
except the last 50 and you might not have even looked at the 50 that were
already there and you never get a chance to even look at the first 50 that
arrived new in that batch of 100...

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 RW> sOme I keep a larger number, where actual discussions take
 RW> place .

like this one? :)

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