Nancy   
      
   >>> Maybe it only affected some of us, I had messages back to 2005   
   >>> dumped here   
   >>> I only saw the dump on one of the eight bbses that I check regularly.   
   >>> Perhaps the others have better dupe checking and/or have saved   
   >>> messages from further back.  But the one had the same dump you did...   
   >>> it was quite a surprise for me to have suddenly a couple hundred   
   >>> supposedly new messages to me from what always was fairly quiet even   
   >>> back in those days...  :)   
      
   >> Due to a change to a 64 bit machine none of my old mailer software   
   >> would work, so I went back to BBBS, which resulted in a clean and   
   >> unpopulated message base :)   
      
   > That would certainly do it.  Not sure why it happened at the one bbs   
   > that I noticed it at, though... it's still on its long-standing setup as   
   > always... and I had thought he saved plenty of messages, but maybe not   
   > that far back...  :)   
      
   I think most systems will only keep a record of 6 months to a year of dupes   
   that way a dump will take over anyway   
      
    >> And it is very quiet here   
      
   > I see that the dump seems to have generated some new life, anyway... :)   
      
   It sure did lol   
      
   Sean   
      
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