19 Dec 16 11:29, you wrote to Björn Felten:   
      
    ml>>> (eg: another message base maint tool purging and packing and not   
    ml>>> updating the watermark due to format differences)   
      
    BF>> Ah yes. How can we prevent something like that happening? It's truly   
    BF>> a PITA whenever it happens.   
      
    NB> For starters, do not purge and/or pack your message bases? I haven't   
    NB> done this since I started using Golded, as those type of functions   
    NB> would mess that program up as well.   
      
   you can purge and pack to maintain the counts you have set... just don't   
   renumber... that's the worst nasty... trying to convince certain maintainers   
   of that is another task altogether... *cough* mystic *cough*   
      
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