ml>RN> I only bother archiving the echoes I moderate and purge the entire
ml>RN> message base every three days.  D'Bridge does a wonderful job of
ml>RN> this.
 RN>  
ml> i don't want or need to purge all the messages from my system... as far
ml> as archiving the echos i moderate, even back in the day when they toted
ml> 500+ messages each, i never archived them like you and other moderators
ml> speak of doing... i see no need in it other than in a rare case where a
ml> particular post might be held on to for future needs and then maybe only
ml> to remind an individual why they were warned or banned... but, there was
ml> only one crazy overly-religious fool in Raleigh that fell into that and
ml> then only once or twice...
 RN>  
 RN> But would you agree it is useless to keep the robot message areas
 RN> such as FIDO-REQ and the like?  

that depends... if one is searching for a file that they know was
distributed and announced in one of those areas, then it makes a perfect
archive to search ;)

ml>RN> JAM -- an acronym for Just Another Mess.  (-:
 RN>  
ml> not by a long shot ;)
 RN>  
 RN> I surrender!  (-:

:lol:

ml> i've worked with most every bbs message base format out there and have
ml> never found one that gave me everything that JAM does... heck, JAM can do
ml> a lot more than what it is used for (plain text messages) but those
ml> "advanced" capabilities haven't gone further than they did
because of the
ml> fall of the BBS as the main communications means...
 RN>  
 RN> Have you tried Mark May's MK Source for Msg Access?

yes... i use it exclusivly in my pascal apps... also, mark and i have
talked about re-licensing the code and placing it in a SVN/GIT repository
so that it can be worked on and fixed where needed... i know there are a
few ports of it to other languages than just TP/BP and i've also added a
few updates to it as well... in fact, i'm also the moderator of the MK
support echo but i don't think the backbone is carrying it any more...
IIRC, when it was given to me, it was only in regional distribution and
then that went away when a new RC was selected and older/dead echos were
drop from the regional distribution chain...

here's another "funny"... i'm always being confused with the
various marC lewis' around fidonet and i have also been confused with Mark
May as well ;)

)\/(ark