Subj : ARCMAIL
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Mar 25 2020 10:55:30

  Re: ARCMAIL
  By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Tue Mar 24 2020 21:37:00


 ml>> i used to use a similar tool here for other reasons but quickly
 ml>> dropped/disabled the sorting and pkt combining functions...

 AA> I have hunted for it/them, but have not found anything.

i don't know what search terms you used...

 AA> Do you remember a filename, key words or description?

i was thinking of the "Fido Year 2000 Tools Rel. 6 by Tobias Ernst" but after a 
quick read of the docs inside, that's not the one but it is one that i used to 
run...

[time passes]

packetsorter is one of the tools i was thinking of... it can generally be found 
as psrt_XX where 'XX' is the version number... it also implements the ^ASPLIT 
proposal which i never used as i disagreed with where it was implemented in the 
processing chain but it was easy enough to work around... in any case, 
packetsorter combines packets and cleans them up... when it combines them, it 
can sort the messages so that they are grouped by area and sorted by date...

this sorting by echo areas helps to speed up tossing since the tosser can then 
open the one area, toss all the new messages, close the area, and move on to 
the next area... that rather than opening an area, tossing one message, closing 
the area, opening the next area, tossing a message, closing the area, opening 
the first area again, tossing another message, etc., etc., etc., tossing them 
as they are stored in the original packet...

there was another tool that also combined packets but i just can't locate it 
right now...


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