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ml>RN> But would you agree it is useless to keep the robot message areas
ml>RN> such as FIDO-REQ and the like?
 
ml> that depends... if one is searching for a file that they know was
ml> distributed and announced in one of those areas, then it makes a perfect
ml> archive to search ;)
 
Okay, so you don't  agree.  I suppose if one has a lot of
downlinks or some special reason for keeping them that long it would make
sense.  Still, you could archive them, ZIP or RAR them for safe keeping and
save a little disk space, although that is not the problem now that it once
was.  I compact my archives about once a year.
 
ml>RN> Have you tried Mark May's MK Source for Msg Access?
 
ml> yes... i use it exclusivly in my pascal apps... also, mark and i have
ml> talked about re-licensing the code and placing it in a SVN/GIT repository
ml> so that it can be worked on and fixed where needed... i know there are a
ml> few ports of it to other languages than just TP/BP and i've also added a
ml> few updates to it as well... in fact, i'm also the moderator of the MK
ml> support echo but i don't think the backbone is carrying it any more...
ml> IIRC, when it was given to me, it was only in regional distribution and
ml> then that went away when a new RC was selected and older/dead echos were
ml> drop from the regional distribution chain...
 
Funny, very much the same thing happened here.
 
ml> here's another "funny"... i'm always being confused with
the various marC
ml> lewis' around fidonet and i have also been confused with Mark May as well
ml> ;)
 
We have a Marc (with a c) Lewis (NOTE use of CAPS) here who is the R19C and
then there's you.  (-:  You'd be surprised how many of me there are.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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