From: nospam.Nick.Andre@f426.n229.z1.fidonet.org   
      
   I ring the Cowbell for feedback on this scenario:   
      
   A downlink of mine wants to lovingly request all 60,000+ Usenet areas   
   available on my system. My system happily fufills the requests...  but I had   
   to adjust some of my code to handle these scenarios:   
      
   - What is the maximum size of an Areafix request in Mystic?   
      
   - How many total Echomail areas can Mystic handle?   
      
   - If he chose to use Mystic, and if Mystic handles Passthru areas, does it   
   automatically clean-up unused passthru areas (areas with one link left, that   
   of the uplink). For example, this downlink gets a rescan of the last 100   
   messages, and most of these Usenet groups are deadwood. He decides later that   
   he wants to un-Areafix the deadwood from my system. Can he run some sort of   
   report or process on his proverbial Mystic system to do so?   
      
   The downlink ultimately wants to build a query/report of which Usenet areas   
   are still active and ones which have had no postings in X amount of time, as   
   part of a larger project he's interested in doing.   
      
   Asking because I want to recommend Mystic with its JAM storage format for this   
   daunting task instead of the *.MSG format D'Bridge is currently limited to.   
      
   Nick   
      
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