I ring the Cowbell for feedback on this scenario:
A downlink of mine wants to lovingly request all 60,000+ Usenet areas available
on my system. My system happily fufills the requests... but I had
to adjust some of my code to handle these scenarios:
- What is the maximum size of an Areafix request in Mystic?
- How many total Echomail areas can Mystic handle?
- If he chose to use Mystic, and if Mystic handles Passthru areas, does it
automatically clean-up unused passthru areas (areas with one link left, that
of the uplink). For example, this downlink gets a rescan of the last 100
messages, and most of these Usenet groups are deadwood. He decides later that
he wants to un-Areafix the deadwood from my system. Can he run some sort of
report or process on his proverbial Mystic system to do so?
The downlink ultimately wants to build a query/report of which Usenet areas are
still active and ones which have had no postings in X amount of time, as part
of a larger project he's interested in doing.
Asking because I want to recommend Mystic with its JAM storage format for this
daunting task instead of the *.MSG format D'Bridge is currently limited to.
Nick
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