John Aldrich wrote in a message to Wayne Arntsen:
 JA> BUT RUN SQSET *FIRST*! (ie SQSET C:\MAX\MESSAGES\MUFFIN 250 0 0
 JA> [set's area MUFFIN to 250 messages, no skip, no "days" of 
 JA> messages])
I don't think that's a good way to set squish bases...
If you only worry about how many messages there are,  then you'll have to get 
a feel for each and every message base on the machine in question to figure 
out what reasonable values would be for them.  250 is _not_ a lot and I have 
a number of busy echos here that exceed that greatly.
The main problem with it is that if you set a squish base according to how 
many messages to keep,  it slows down tossing,  as it needs to delete as it's 
going along.
I far prefer to set a number (real high,  though,  so you won't likely reach 
it -- like 2500 or whatever) for a maximum limit,  and then set the base to 
keep a specified number of days.  This allows the mail to get tossed quicker 
and you need to run sqpack every so often,  but I like that approach better.
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