ml> what do you mean by "archive"?? my message bases are my archives ;)
 RN>  
 RN> In D'Bridge, there is a function allows the user to purge the
 RN> message bases by message number or the number of days.

yes, that's quite common in all message base maint tools ;)

 RN> I use days, so everything that is older than three days is deleted 
 RN> or archived, depending on the settings for any number of echoes.

i use 365 days for the huge majority of my message bases... then again, i
can because my message base format does not have the same restrictions as
other message base formats ;)

 RN> The archived messages are stored in a text file with the name you 
 RN> give it during message base setup.  I archive or store, if you 
 RN> prefer, all eight message echoes I moderate and a few I don't, 
 RN> depending on my interest in them and the time I allot to reading 
 RN> them.  The purge may be run automatically or manually.

interesting... i've always heard of folk "archiving" their
message bases but have never seen the option built in or an explanation of
how they were doing it...

the archiving method used sounds very similar to my NMPurge utility that
archives old *.MSG netmails to a text file...

)\/(ark