RW>RN> But would you agree it is useless to keep the robot message areas
RW>RN> such as FIDO-REQ and the like?
 RN>  
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.
 RN>  
 RN> )\/(arc

ahem! :lol:

 RN> like to keep old messages.  I can only conclude he is way
 RN> behind in his reading.
 RN>  

i believe i am some 14000+ behind in COOKING right now... i'm fully caught
up on all the rest of the 200someodd areas i carry ;)

RW> Only reason I carry any of them at all is that when the fdn
RW> I administer hatches files it posts to one of them, and the
RW> robot I use has to post to an actual message base, and the
RW> one that could post as a dummy point doesn't do nice things
RW> after y2k.  OTherwise it would be on pass thru to the only
RW> downlink carrying it and the robot would dummy point post by firing into
RW> my inbound.
 RN>  
 RN> I did make some areas passthru due to the violent nature of some of
 RN> the users.  

i've thought about doing that for the numerous political areas that my
system now pulls for others but then i'd not know if something got broken
with their distribution if i did...

RW> I think I keep 200 in wether.
 RN>  
RW> sOme I keep a larger number, where actual discussions take
RW> place .
 RN>  
 RN> That is most unusual.  (-:



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