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    From IB Joe@1:342/200 to g00r00 on Fri Apr 22 10:25:59 2022
    When I'm not pissing people off I can come up with some really good suggestions.... and here is one... I have recently subscribed to a UseNET feed... When I first got setup he had a fidonet.na file and and I auto-added the areas. As part of this file each area had some sort of unique name and then the area definition was the actual UseNET group name... Looked like this...

    u7055475 alt.abortion
    u5334240 alt.acting
    u5795186 alt.activism
    u2895624 alt.activism.children
    u3019480 alt.activism.community

    So... as I auto added the areas into Mystic it gave each area a unique file name for the message areas... giving them an 8 and 3 structure.

    This person has since added new areas to my feed, not a big deal, Mystic auto-adds the areas... but as you know Mystic is auto-creats the areas the storage file names are huge... alt.hampster.duct-tape.*

    Could Mystic just auto-add the areas with some computer generated hexadecimal 8 character file name unique to that message area so instead of creating JAM files that resemble the alt.hampster area it would be RANDOM12.*

    Thanx

    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to IB Joe on Fri Apr 22 14:54:23 2022
    So... as I auto added the areas into Mystic it gave each area a unique file name for the message areas... giving them an 8 and 3 structure.

    This person has since added new areas to my feed, not a big deal, Mystic auto-adds the areas... but as you know Mystic is auto-creats the areas
    the storage file names are huge... alt.hampster.duct-tape.*

    Could Mystic just auto-add the areas with some computer generated hexadecimal 8 character file name unique to that message area so instead of creating JAM files that resemble the alt.hampster area it would be RANDOM12.*

    This is already a thing in A48! :)

    + MUTIL ImportEchoMail now has a "dos_filename" option that when set to true
    will generate JAM base filenames in the DOS 8.3 format during auto create.

    It doesn't do a random name though, it shortens the name and then finds a unique value by changing only what it has to. The result is the same though, unique 8.3 names if you don't like long filenames.

    ... Honk if you love peace and quiet!

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  • From IB Joe@1:342/200 to g00r00 on Sat Apr 23 11:46:43 2022
    On 22 Apr 2022, g00r00 said the following...


    This is already a thing in A48! :)

    + MUTIL ImportEchoMail now has a "dos_filename" option that when set to true will generate JAM base filenames in the DOS 8.3 format during
    auto create.

    It doesn't do a random name though, it shortens the name and then finds a unique value by changing only what it has to. The result is the same though, unique 8.3 names if you don't like long filenames.

    ... Honk if you love peace and quiet!

    I made some changes...

    Thanx

    IB Joe
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
    -=JoesBBS.com=-

    ... A book in the hand is worth two on the shelf!

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