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    From Don Rolo@21:1/101 to All on Fri Mar 13 03:30:33 2020
    Hi people! a question for those with more experience:
    How many messages do you keep in the different areas?

    For example, I have set 5000 messages for the General Chat area,
    and I delete those with more than 365 days old...
    For the rest I keep 500 messages and, again, delete those that
    exceed 365 days...

    What "numbers" do you use? I saw several BBS's with more than 10.000
    messages per area.

    Thank you!

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Don Rolo on Thu Mar 12 09:14:53 2020
    Hi people! a question for those with more experience:
    How many messages do you keep in the different areas?

    I just mass set everything at 5000 messages and 365 days.

    I don't expect anyone will actually read 5000 messages in any base or
    anything, but 5000 seems like a manageable number that I can still search against.

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  • From xqtr@21:1/111 to Don Rolo on Thu Mar 12 17:37:32 2020
    Hi people! a question for those with more experience:
    How many messages do you keep in the different areas?

    For example, I have set 5000 messages for the General Chat area,
    and I delete those with more than 365 days old...
    For the rest I keep 500 messages and, again, delete those that
    exceed 365 days...

    What "numbers" do you use? I saw several BBS's with more than 10.000 messages per area.

    Personally for areas with a lot traffic, that are "important", i use 10000 and 365 days. In areas like FSX_BOT or FSX_DAT i use 500 and 100 days, cause they are being updated daily.

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to Don Rolo on Thu Mar 12 13:47:48 2020
    Hello Don,

    For example, I have set 5000 messages for the General Chat area,
    and I delete those with more than 365 days old...
    For the rest I keep 500 messages and, again, delete those that
    exceed 365 days...

    You can set those to meet your needs. I set a max of 5000 msgs and a max age of
    0 days.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Don Rolo on Fri Mar 13 09:57:04 2020
    On 13 Mar 2020 at 03:30a, Don Rolo pondered and said...

    What "numbers" do you use? I saw several BBS's with more than 10.000 messages per area.

    With HDD storage being so good now I leave most fsxNet bases as 0 and 0 for number of messages and days. In other words I keep them all.

    The exception to this are bases like FSX_DAT and FSX_BOT where I limit the numbers down by days, where days = 90 or similar... and leave number of messages to 0 ..

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  • From Don Rolo@21:1/101 to xqtr on Fri Mar 13 10:46:32 2020
    Thanks for the answer xqtr!

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  • From Don Rolo@21:1/101 to ryan on Fri Mar 13 10:47:59 2020
    Thanks ryan for the answer about the msgs. and for the tip about deleted
    users! gonna check this shortly!

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  • From Don Rolo@21:1/101 to Al on Fri Mar 13 10:50:22 2020
    Thanks Al for sharing your setup! 0 days means you never delete the msgs. right? BUT I guess that when you get the msg. #5001 the #1 gets erased, right?

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  • From Don Rolo@21:1/101 to Avon on Fri Mar 13 10:52:47 2020
    Thanks Avon! this really makes sense. Guess I gonna stick to your setup and
    see how develops.

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  • From Warp 4@21:2/135 to Don Rolo on Fri Mar 13 15:39:50 2020
    Don Rolo wrote to All <=-

    For example, I have set 5000 messages for the General Chat area,
    and I delete those with more than 365 days old...
    For the rest I keep 500 messages and, again, delete those that
    exceed 365 days...

    What "numbers" do you use? I saw several BBS's with more than 10.000 messages per area.

    Since my systems are running on VMs, I keep all my message bases at no more than 500 messages.

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  • From Don Rolo@21:4/167 to Warp 4 on Mon Apr 13 12:07:14 2020

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  • From Warp 4@21:2/135 to Don Rolo on Tue Apr 14 11:03:56 2020
    On 13 Apr 2020, Don Rolo said the following...

    Thanks Warp 4 for the reply & tip!


    What did I say? :)

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  • From Don Rolo@21:4/167 to Warp 4 on Mon May 11 17:20:22 2020
    different msg. areas :)

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