Subj : packets  was: Note from D
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Jan 24 2020 11:40:00

Subject: packets  was: Note from Daryl Stout


Hi Nancy!

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

Figured you have. :)  ...Assuming the setting worked (sounds a bit like
my timestamp quirk here) the packet size would be the one to limit as
limiting messages theoretically could still give a relatively huge
packet.

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