Text 2339, 58 rader
Skriven 2012-08-15 10:46:00 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
   Kommentar till text 2323 av Mark Lewis (1:3634/12.0)
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Hi! mark,

On Tue, 14 Aug 12, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> During tests, SLMR blew itself away.  It started running out of
 PQ>> memory all the damned time, after I downloaded a fresh QWK
 PQ>> packet from my BBS.

 ml> i haven't heard of SLMR doing that... what environment are you trying
 ml> to run it in? the biggest problem that SLMR has is a 200 lines per
 ml> message limit... posts longer than that can only show the first 200
 ml> lines...

[sfx: dry cough] It's ermm my XP games vBox.  It actually has more low RAM than
my Fido vBox does.  I don't know or care why SLMR was bitchin'.  Everything was
the same... same BBS door, same ZIP (both ends), with more RAM.  Three other
Qwk packets opened fine, one each from 2010, 2011 & one from earlier this year.
 SLMR barfed on a new one from... ahmm, when did I do the test again?[shrug] 
Sh#t happens.

 ml> i have multimail here and actually have used it more than other
 ml> BW/QWK offline readers in recent years... it works as expected given
 ml> the format of the mail at that point ;)

You know, that's my outlook as well.  Except the methodology aspect.  There's
too many steps involved in grabbing off-line mail.  The MM config files are the
only off-line things that I still have and they're... just checking... dated
March 2005.  If I can't do SemPoint or GoldEd then there's always JamNNTPd via
Thunderbird.  :)

 PQ>> Have a squiz at the posts by Tom Walker & Ed Vance, both of whom
 PQ>> use SLMR (in the Windows-type echoes).

Mark, I'm gonna do a 'Ed Vance' on this and save it for close inspection
later...

 ml> ed is/was posting from a synchronet board...
[ ...trimmed... ]
 ml> so we have this hodge podge of mix'n'match and it works for the most
 ml> part...

Uh huh.

 ml> the ones that are really troublesome are those gating systems
 ml> that do not follow proper gating techniques and methods... like
 ml> gating from one FTN network to another without doing the double toss
 ml> thing... or gating from a newsgroup without proper conversion and
 ml> maintaining of control lines for both sides of the fence...

I'm glad that you're on top of that, getting it sorted.  A lot of it is 'over
my head' stuff (that's why I had to save your discourse, above).  It must be a
hardening of the arteries thing.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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