Subj : Message area limits?
To   : G00R00
From : Nick Andre
Date : Thu Feb 10 2022 07:30 pm

I ring the Cowbell for feedback on this scenario:

A downlink of mine wants to lovingly request all 60,000+ Usenet areas 
available on my system. My system happily fufills the requests...  but I had
to adjust some of my code to handle these scenarios:

- What is the maximum size of an Areafix request in Mystic?

- How many total Echomail areas can Mystic handle?

- If he chose to use Mystic, and if Mystic handles Passthru areas, does it
automatically clean-up unused passthru areas (areas with one link left, that
of the uplink). For example, this downlink gets a rescan of the last 100
messages, and most of these Usenet groups are deadwood. He decides later that 
he wants to un-Areafix the deadwood from my system. Can he run some sort of 
report or process on his proverbial Mystic system to do so?

The downlink ultimately wants to build a query/report of which Usenet areas 
are still active and ones which have had no postings in X amount of time, as 
part of a larger project he's interested in doing.

Asking because I want to recommend Mystic with its JAM storage format for this
daunting task instead of the *.MSG format D'Bridge is currently limited to.

Nick
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