Subj : perl files for fidonet
To   : Russ Johnson
From : Tye Hammerle
Date : Fri Jul 06 2001 01:18 pm

Hello Russ!

28 Jun 01 17:03, Russ Johnson wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RJ> I just had a discussion with the author of bbbs. According to him, the
 RJ> reason you can't use tar.gz as an echomail archiver is because it
 RJ> can't append to an archive. This makes sense, since tar is used for
 RJ> writing to tape.

 RJ> I'll look into this a little more, but if that's the case, then, it
 RJ> would cause much lost mail.

How about dump the messages into a holding area until just before they need to 
be sent, then tar'em.

Tye

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