-=> NANCY BACKUS wrote to SEAN RIMA <=-   
      
    >>> 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...  :)   
    SR>> I think most systems will only keep a record of 6 months to a year   
    >> of   
    SR>> dupes that way a dump will take over anyway   
    NB>   
    NB> I thought the oddest bit was that it did only happen at one of the 8   
    NB> bbses I call.  Maybe some of them also have a "bad date" check, so that   
    NB> something as old as these messages were doesn't get accepted?   
      
   To be honest I must check to see if BBBS has this, seems odd that it allowed   
   them to be tossed. But yeah I checked a few other systems and it seems to have   
   been a small footprint of systems that got them.   
      
      
    >>> And it is very quiet here   
    >> I see that the dump seems to have generated some new life, anyway...   
    >> :)   
    NB>   
    SR>> It sure did lol   
    NB>   
    NB> For the time being... ;)   
    NB>   
   Well we will all go back to sleep soon I guess :)   
      
   Sean   
      
   ... Are you the police?  . . . .  No ma'am, we're sysadmin   
      
   --- BBBS/NT v4.10 Dada-1   
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