mark lewis wrote in a message to Shawn Highfield:

ml> DOS used to have a limit where it slowed down a whole lot with more
ml> than X files in a directory... i forget the number but it was run

  That is what I was remembering.

ml> as far as limits, i much prefer to purge on "time of arrival"
ml> instead of some arbitrary number of messages or based on the date
ml> the message was written...

  Yeah that makes sense too, especialy as this is just a point system for my own use.

Shawn
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