Hi! David,

On 12 Feb 01 21:44, Steve Quarrella wrote to David Gonzalez:

there's some way to get this tosser to process SMB style nsg
areas?.

What is an SMB style message area?

^^^
Blast, I can't wait any longer. What's this SMB??

If it's "Squish", then no hassles. I'm doing squish areas with FastEcho. Need
help; just ask. :-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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Hi ya there Paul!

Miercoles Febrero 14 2001, Paul Quinn writes to David Gonzalez:

Hi! David,

On 12 Feb 01 21:44, Steve Quarrella wrote to David Gonzalez:

there's some way to get this tosser to process SMB style nsg
areas?.

What is an SMB style message area?

^^^
Blast, I can't wait any longer. What's this SMB??

SMB is the standard that Synchronet BBS uses if you wanna learn more about it just visist http://www.syncghro.net/docs

If it's "Squish", then no hassles. I'm doing squish areas with
FastEcho.
Need help; just ask. :-)

Nope is no squish, and about that would you tell me what's better to use Squish
*MSG, Hudson or JAM?, i'm suing JAM and i've always liked that but if you think
other is better just tell me about it :)

Cheers,
Paul.

What does cheers mean?.

Best Regards David!
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RE: SMB style msg areas?
BY: Paul Quinn to David Gonzalez on Wed Feb 14 2001 09:51 pm

there's some way to get this tosser to process SMB style nsg
areas?.

What is an SMB style message area?

^^^
Blast, I can't wait any longer. What's this SMB??

http://synchro.net/docs/smb.html

Rob

SMB is the standard that Synchronet BBS uses if you wanna learn
more about it just visist http://www.syncghro.net/docs

Aha...that could be a problem. So Rob doesn't support *.MSG, Squish, JAM, or HMB, or is it that SMB is preferable in some way if you're running a Synchronet
system?

Nope is no squish, and about that would you tell me what's better
to use Squish *MSG, Hudson or JAM?, i'm suing JAM and i've always

That's a tough question to answer. For my needs, I use HMB for smaller areas, because it's fast and easy to maintain, while its down side is that if I lose the whole HMB, all those message areas are gone. HMB doesn't keep track of when the message arrives on your system, versus when it was written. So, if someone writes a message a month ago and it just gets to me today, it's going to be purged tonight in my message base packing event, because I delete messages that have been here for three weeks. With JAM, I don't have that problem, and I have greater flexibility with those bigger areas. I don't use Squish, because my software doesn't support it, but it's just fine, too, in that it and JAM are essentially miniature databases for each area. *.MSG is the least preferable, as it's one file per message, and that can add up to a lot of wasted cluster space and a lot of overhead for your utilities. In fact,
I was working with someone here in Region 19 who had some -huge- *.MSG bases, and things got to a point where her echomail processor just wouldn't export anymore, for some reason. Once she moved those *.MSGs to another folder and started fresh, she could toss and scan as she expected.

All told, use what works best for your needs. A lot of folks would sneer at my
using an HMB, but in the long run, it works out for me (be aware that it has a size limitation of 16 MB, and only 200 message areas or so).

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Hi! David,

On 15 Feb 01 13:15, David Gonzalez wrote to Paul Quinn:

What is an SMB style message area?

Blast, I can't wait any longer. What's this SMB??

SMB is the standard that Synchronet BBS uses if you wanna learn more about it just visist http://www.syncghro.net/docs

Oh, OK. No thanks; no BBS here any more.

If it's "Squish", then no hassles. I'm doing squish areas with
FastEcho. Need help; just ask. :-)

Nope is no squish, and about that would you tell me what's better to
use Squish *MSG, Hudson or JAM?, i'm suing JAM and i've always liked
that but if you think other is better just tell me about it :)

I used JAM for about 4 years and don't recall having any great problems with it. There were a few minor problems, but nothing that couldn't be fixed (a whole lot easier than, say, with Hudson). I'd still be using JAM now except the editor I use can't do JAM; only Squish, *.MSG, QuickBBS, or Hudson. That's
no great hassle either as this editor reads my FastEcho config file directly for area definitions.

There's probably very little difference, performance-wise, between JAM and Squish in your average BBS setup, though technically JAM is supposed to be more
advanced/efficient. With JAM you just run the risk of one out of the four files that make up an echo area going "bad" (due to a disk error, perhaps), as against the chance of one out of three files that make up a Squish echo area going "bad".

Cheers,

What does cheers mean?.
Best Regards David!

^^^^ ^^^^^^^
In a word, it is this! ...and, more...goodbye...till we meet again, etc. :-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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