Subj : EleBBS/OS2
To   : MATTHEW MUNSON
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jun 17 2017 09:47 pm


 On 2017 Jun 17 15:42:36, you wrote to me:

 ml>> mystic supports only the JAM message base, AFAIK... squish was removed

 MM> What makes Squish not as viable in the bbs world?

squish has a few drawbacks to it that are, in general, ok but lead to problems 
in some cases... the message timestamp format being one of those... messages 
stored in a SQUish base have their message timestamps adjusted to an even 
number... this can cause a problem in dupe detection... especially if there's 
no MSGID in the message... possibly again if a system does a rescan and the 
posts are all sent out to its links...

there's also the limited number of reply linking slots... there's only 10 
slots, IIRC, but there may be more than 10 responses to a post so the reply 
linking can get broken at some point...

there was something else, i think, but i can't recall it right now... in any 
case, the author of mystic removed SQUish support for several reasons... one 
was memory footprint... another was to make coding easier and not have to worry 
about how each message base format works... there was possibly another one or 
two, as well... it has been a while but i think these were the two main ones...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
wrong...
.... Middle age is when you start to burn the midnight oil about 9 PM.
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