ml>RN> I like to do them by date, with a couple of areas not of
ml>RN> interest to me being purged daily and the rest every three days, as
ml>RN> I explained before.
 RN>  
ml> right... i do the same except that i have chosen 730 days as the criteria
ml> in most of my areas... some have 0 for their parameter which means they
ml> never get purged...
 RN>  
 RN> At my age, I can't plan THAT far ahead.  (-:  Just who is going to
 RN> read your areas with a 0 parameter if you can't?
 RN>  

they are archived for special purposes... in at least six cases, they are
echos for the beta teams that i am/was a member of... i keep those messages
for historical reasons and they have also helped me to help others with
certain problems that have come up with the release versions of those
packages...

ml>RN> If memory serves, there is a setting in D'Bridge that will allow
ml>RN> the tossing and purging to occur whenever mail is received.  I'll
ml>RN> get back to you on that.
 RN>  
ml> several mail tossing packages do have such a setting but i've never been
ml> aware of it working on areas maintained by date... what would be the
ml> reason? the first toss of the day would purge the old messages and then
ml> it would very possibly be a wasted process for the rest of the day...
 RN>  
 RN> See example above between the lines.  It must be remembered that a
 RN> genius designed D'Bridge and we were lucky enough to have another
 RN> genius take it over and keep it current.

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