15 Sep 15 01:10, you wrote to me:

 ER>>> In regards to actually managing EchoArea's, those have options like
 ER>>> -p for purge days, and -$m for number of messages to keep, but I
 ER>>> don't believe that hpt itself actually..... packs the messages?

 ML>> as near as i can tell, that's the job of the (misnamed???) sqpack... i
 ML>> use it here on my JAM bases every night in an event and it seems to
 ML>> work just fine...

 ER> Hmmm. Seems you're right. I did search Jam inside of the sqpack directory
 ER> of the source code, and sure enough, it's got many mentions of it,
 ER> including "not supported" stuff. LOL

yeah, my testing and discovery came from sqpack being the only message base
maint tool in the husky package... since it is compiled with smapi like
hpt, well... it just made sense ;)

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