-=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Ben Carpenter <=-
 
 BC> I guess I am a packrat as I have quite a few old mail packets still
 BC> in the download dir.  I only delete some of the old ones when BW
 BC> starts getting slow to show the list of packets to open.  I would
 BC> guess I have over 100 old mail packets still in the dir that show up
 BC> when I go to open mail packets.  I have packets from 3 different BBS's
 BC> and they are sorted by BBS so I have to page down a few times to get
 BC> to the next BBS.

 NB> I'm a packrat, too.    But I move the old packets to a different
 NB> directory, about every month or so, so as to clear the working decks. 
 NB> And I rename the QWK packets as soon as I have them downloaded, with a
 NB> renaming utility that puts a date as part of the filename, to avoid
 NB> overwriting a packet I'm not done with yet.  I also got in the habit
 NB> of saving the old reply packets (back when I was sending a lot of long
 NB> genealogy messages) just in case I needed to resend something.  I
 NB> rename them in such a way as to have BW not "see" them,
and only name a
 NB> reply packet back if I need to get into it, so that I don't have to
 NB> worry about sending out duplicate replies.

 I use Telix for Windows(TFW) as my telnet client to get my mail
 packets with the zmodem protocol.  I have it set to not append a file
 so it will rename the extension if it comes across a packet with the
 same name. I also have BW setup to rename the extension when closing a
 packet with a number extension.  It makes each one on number larger
 from 1 to 999.

 When I was saving reply packets more than I do now I changed the
 extension name to something like *.re1 *.re2 etc and kept about 10 of
 them and the batch file that controlled this function just kept moving
 the reply file one more down the list till it deleted the oldest one.
 That way I had the last 10 reply packets.

... Ben    

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