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to: BENNY PEDERSEN
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2016-02-25 12:01:00
subject: New Files at Rocasa FTN

-=> Benny Pedersen wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 BP> he and it reminds me on double space dos drives, silly jam msgbases on
 BP> linux, best solved with opus storage, squish is not perfect either :)

 BP> hudson is something like ums on amiga where all msgs is stored in a
 BP> single storage with indexes and a api that solves it what type of msg
 BP> is it, could be email or usenet msgs, echomail, pretty nice imho, but
 BP> it have the problem of expire data like the above

Hudson had a size limit of 16MB, beyond which, the indices would overflow,
causing all sorts of corruption issues.  That was tough to manage on a message
oriented board.  Migrating most message areas to JAM kept the problem under
control in later years.
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