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  • trim echomail areas on a schedule

    From pweck@23:1/1 to All on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 17:28:14
    echomail areas grow quickly, and untrimmed areas slow down message scans and eat disk space.

    set a maximum message count or age for each area and let your maintenance routine enforce it. busy areas may need tighter limits than quiet ones.

    review the settings occasionally as traffic changes. a tidy message base makes the whole system feel faster

    pweck
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  • From Nigel Reed@23:250/12 to pweck on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 18:34:39
    Re: trim echomail areas on a schedule
    By: pweck to All on Wed Sep 30 2026 17:28:14

    review the settings occasionally as traffic changes. a tidy message base makes the whole system feel faster

    There's really only one area that's out of control and that's on the twqnet network. I have most of my groups at either anything from 10,000 to 50,000 per single echo. I guess it depends what your software can handle.
    --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux
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  • From pweck@23:1/1 to Nigel Reed on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 20:07:56
    review the settings occasionally as traffic changes. a tidy message bas makes the whole system feel faster

    There's really only one area that's out of control and that's on the twqnet network. I have most of my groups at either anything from 10,000
    to 50,000 per single echo. I guess it depends what your software can handle. --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux

    thats a ton of messages!

    pweck
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  • From Nigel Reed@23:250/12 to pweck on Wednesday, October 07, 2026 00:54:29
    Re: Re: trim echomail areas on a schedule
    By: pweck to Nigel Reed on Wed Sep 30 2026 20:07:56

    There's really only one area that's out of control and that's on the twqnet network. I have most of my groups at either anything from 10,000 to 50,000 per single echo. I guess it depends what your software can handle. --- SBBSecho 3.37-Linux

    thats a ton of messages!

    Well, they don't all have that many messages, of course....it's a theoretical maximum since there are not that many posts these days.
    --- SBBSecho 3.38-Linux
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