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

ml>RN> JAM -- an acronym for Just Another Mess.  (-:
 
ml> not by a long shot ;)
 
I surrender!  (-:
 
[...]
 
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...
 
Have you tried Mark May's MK Source for Msg Access?
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

... Kill What You Can't Understand.
--- D'Bridge 3.54