-=> 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

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