DG> months I'll fire up the local node and see that dread 
 DG> message "Can't open message tracking subsystem" and 
 DG> discover a blowout.
 VF> Suggestion (From da daily maintenance:)
[batchfile magic snipped]
I do that in weekly maintenance, and if there's a bad packet ('cuz often "bad 
packet" means that it couldn't toss a msg because an area was bad), and if I 
*see* something suspicious.  But when a blowout happens (as opposed to the 
occasional bad area, which sqfix usually pretty much retrieves), there's apt 
to be ten or twenty areas with the .SQD showing 0 bytes.  If "email" is one 
of those, I hear about it :(
What's wierd is that this never used to happen.  I really need to go over the 
various batchfiles in great detail, because I have the gut feeling that it 
involves some sort of internode conflict.  Though the one time I actually 
observed it happen, I was on the bbs and shelled to DOS, then forgot that I 
was in a shell and loaded the bbs again.  Yeah, that was dumb, and I've 
adjusted my batch files to prevent that particular circumstance from 
happening again.  (You folks with fancy OS wouldn't have made that mistake.)
-Dave
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