When I'm not pissing people off I can come up with some really  good
suggestions.... and here is one... I have recently subscribed to a UseNET feed... When I first got setup he had a fidonet.na file and and I auto-added the areas.  As part of this file each area had some sort of unique name and then the area definition was the actual UseNET group name... Looked like this...

u7055475       alt.abortion
u5334240       alt.acting
u5795186       alt.activism
u2895624       alt.activism.children
u3019480       alt.activism.community

So... as I auto added the areas into Mystic it gave each area a unique file name for the message areas... giving them an 8 and 3 structure.

This person has since added new areas to my feed, not a big deal, Mystic auto-adds the areas... but as you know Mystic is auto-creats the areas the storage file names are huge... alt.hampster.duct-tape.*

Could Mystic just auto-add the areas with some computer generated hexadecimal 8 character file name unique to that message area so instead of creating JAM files that resemble the alt.hampster area it would be RANDOM12.*

Thanx

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's BBS
-=JoesBBS.com=-

... Confucius say: "Man who runs behind car gets exhausted"

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/02/09 (Windows/64)