TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49
MSGID: 1:129/215 d782b274
REPLY: 4:902/27 63dbccde
TZUTC: -0500
 MA> The echomail autocreate areas in 8.3 format is very rare. Works fine
 MA> around some time and suddenly Mystic stop creating them with short names
 MA> and autocreate them with long names. Very strange.

I can't see any place in the code that would cause this.  Do you have a log or
an actual example of a name of a base where this happened?  Maybe I can try to
recreate it here using the same name.

... Computers all wait at the same speed!

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