Yeah, message areas with over 300 or more messages in 'em can be a pain, but 
for me, I'd still prefer the *.msg system. More robust.
Here in Ottawa, a hard disk costs about $500, as it always has. The 
difference is, that will buy you over 1 gig of space. Extra drive letters for 
a small partition doesn't cost anything.
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