HI Mark,

On Thu 2038-Sep-16 16:36, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Richard Webb:

 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.

ml> i'm not aware of any system that purges on the fly by date... only
ml> by numbers... the problem with that is that, for instance, if you
ml> have the number set for 50 and you get 100 new ones, then you loose
ml> all of them except the last 50 and you might not have even looked at
ml> the 50 that were already there and you never get a chance to even
ml> look at the first 50 that arrived new in that batch of 100... 

True, but most of the robot areas I don't really look at
that closely anyway.  THe one robot mostly posted area I
keep is ratrher repititous anyway.  Even with a low number
like fifty you probably still get two or three announcements of the Nasa
picture of the day from two or three different
systems, and of course the leaf node that has to tell
everybody it got a nodediff .


 RW> sOme I keep a larger number, where actual discussions take
 RW> place .

ml> like this one? :)

YEah, I think I keep 500 in this area, which means that if I would get a
first time caller getting access he's got a bit
of conversation to look through or download.  I think in
this echo that'll take you back almost a year iirc .

Regards,
           Richard
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