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Subject: Re: Posting ANSIs Date: Sun Sep 08 2024 02:31 pm
From: Digital Man To: Gamgee

  Re: Re: Posting ANSIs
  By: Gamgee to phigan on Sun Sep 08 2024 08:02 am

 > It means it will search 10000 messages to see if the current one matches
 > any of them and is therefore a dupe.  Doesn't make any sense to have
 > that set like that if you only keep 1000 messages.  Make them match.  I
 > suggest 5000 for both.

The message text CRC history (a sub-boards ".sch" file) can be larger (even much
larger) than the number of messages that a sysop chooses to store in a base. And
it makes sense if one wants to prevent old dupes from being imported into their
(networked) message bases.
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