Subj : Re: New BBS in the works.
To   : Vk3jed
From : bbsing
Date : Tue Jan 05 2021 09:06 pm

On 27 Feb 2020 at 02:34p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
 Vk> incornations of my HMB to prove that! :D  The biggest weakness of the
 Vk> HMB was a 16M size limit for the _entire_ messagebase.  When your
 Vk> messagebase has close to 200 echos (plus netmail), and many of those
 Vk> areas are fairly active, it makes the messagebase very susceptible to
 Vk> being overloaded.  Once you break the 16M limit, ugly things happen,
 Vk> like everything gets scrambled, and weird crossposts happen!

Hi Vk3jed, 

When you say crosspost, what is that? 

I'm using qwk packs and offline readers as a bbs user, and I'm seeing errors
on many of the messages in the qwk packs. I'm using multimail 0.52, and
terminate 5.0's mail reader. Both systems behave differently. 

Multimail shows the message count for an area, but the area index has many
messages that have error 0 message for the message line. 

In Terminate's (old dos program) the messages from field looks missing and
the messages body runs through the from, and subject. Each message looks to
contain several messages. 

Things just looked mangled.

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