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echo: bluewave
to: Mark Lewis
from: Charles Angelich
date: 2003-02-11 00:23:02
subject: help with BW the OLR

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bluewave



Hello Mark - 

CA>> Do not depend on the BBS to fix the damage that BW OLR QWK
CA>> packet dates will have if you ignore the problem. FIDO BBS
CA>> are _supposed_ to remove messages dated older than 3 years
CA>> and NOT fix them. 

ml> this "rule" is nowhere to be found... in fact, all mail
ml> moving in fidonet is done on a voluntary basis... there are
ml> no membership fees involved... nor can anyone else tell you
ml> how to run your system... only that they will or won't link
ml> with you... 

Semantics. The majority did not want floods of old messages and
there was, as I have said, ample time for users to switch OLRs. 

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