Re: Max number of messages?
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Mar 03 2021 09:14:00


 pF> I'm curious - what do you have the maximum number of messages set
 pF> to per base?

unlimited with purge by days set to 1100...
1100 days is just over 3 years...
why 3 years? that's the FTN MSGID recycle allowed period...
in other words, the FTN MSGID spec says that MSGIDs are not supposed to repeat within three years so we choose to retain messages for that time period...

  365.25 * 3 = 1095.75 days

by using 1100 days, a nice round and easy to remember number, we have a small buffer of 4.25 days over the three year limit...


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