On 2019 Feb 15 10:48:06, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 ON> True for Fidonet - however, other networks I am on push hundreds of
 ON> messages per poll. But, I only poll them 2 or 3 times a day - and they are
 ON> extremely active. No problem.

imagine what it'll be like when you get a """real setup""" going (J/K!) where
you are in a "crash me, crash you" configuration such that pkts and tics/files
are processed immediately on arrival... my old system used to process mail
once an hour before it became a tier 1 mail hub... it spent a lot of time
processing mail... especially since it was also only 800Mhz... my new setup
processes the mail and files as soon as they come in... "WOW!" doesn't even
begin to cover the experiance of seeing messages come in, being fully
processed, and sent out to all my linked systems in less than 30 seconds... i
have some stats around here somewhere that i need to figure out how to process
and look at in a more human readable format...

i haven't seen changes in speed like that since going from a 486-40 to a
200mhz pentium ii and then again from the pii to 800mhz whatever cpu i was
running... that system didn't want to come back up after Hurricane Florence
came through here so i had a choice... stay offline or set up a new system...
i finally decided to make another VM and install a new setup there... it is
ubuntu server 18.04 LTS with no GUI crap on it... i ended up choosing
synchronet BBS (aka sbbs) for the job over a few others that i had looked
at... it has performed admirably here and as i get more used to it, i can
contribute fixes back upstream or make mods available for others if they want
them... i couldn't really do that before... plus it gives me something to do
during this downtime until the weather clears and construction jobs come back
to life...

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