27 Sep 15 12:47, you wrote to Nick Andre:
 NA>> If there is no purge criteria defined, DBUTIL will not purge or
 NA>> renumber messages...

 MH> What do most people set for purge settings?

i set most of mine for 3 years plus a few days to cover leap years and then
some... this because the MSGID expiration is 3 years ;)

 MH> It wouldn't be a bad thing to purge the entire FIDONEWS, but that is
 MH> another story.

hahaha...

 MH> I don't have any of those settings in place and don't know that I
 MH> really need to, since storage is not an issue these days.

storage isn't but possibly dead space or mainly dupe databases not being
able to cover at least 3+ years... some systems still have old limitations
in place... (eg: file system limit of 2G)

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