Subj : packets  was: Note from Daryl Stout
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Jan 24 2020 00:32:26

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 17-Jan-2020 09:36 <=-
 -=> NANCY BACKUS wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-
 
 NB>>> Fortunately I've been able to download a message packet every night,
 NB>>> even if I haven't been able to deal with it... so I have a lovely pile
 NB>>> of packets to work thru...  ;)  About a week behind, still.... ;)
 DS>> I just do messages on my BBS...too much else otherwise.
 NB>> That's the difference... you've got your bbs to hold the messages
 NB>> until you get to them... If I got them in one huge message packet, I
 NB>> wouldn't be able to open the packet in my offline reader... So I keep
 NB>> the packet size more reasonable by downloading nightly, even if I
 NB>> don't have time to do any replies right away... :)
 BM> There should be a way to configure your BBS packet size at Tiny's.
 BM> Generally two options: number of messages per packet and the size of
 BM> the packet itself.

Yes, there sort of is... both options are enabled, but I've not seen that
it works quite as advertised... I do have some tricks to divide a
multiple-days packet into two or three smaller ones, but it involves a
lot of messing with things to tag and untag message areas, so I'd just
as soon leave that hassle for when I'm actually away without access and
can't do the nightly downloads...  Over the years, I've figured out what
works best for me.... :)

ttyl       neb

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