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  • Re: test multiple qwk upl

    From Marceline Jones@1:103/705 to MAURO VEIGA on Sun Mar 14 16:52:00 2021
    Understood. I think you want a very particular way of working
    with QWK packages. It seems to me something that would need to be developed together with the door and the offline mail reader.

    A QWK and REP merging tool would be the answer.

    That way, new packets can just be appended to the same file.

    It is not what you want but here I work with the packages as
    follows: every 30th of the month I retract the message pointers
    until the 30th of the previous month and download a package of
    messages. I delete the packages read during the month and keep
    monthly backups of the messages and my replies.
    It works well for me.

    What you are doing would still require keeping separate REP packets. What if I decided to reply to a message, then upload the REP packet ? -- I would end up with 30 REP packets each month.

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  • From Mauro Veiga@4:801/194 to MARCELINE JONES on Sun Mar 14 10:18:00 2021
    Quoting Marceline Jones to Mauro Veiga <=-

    It is not what you want but here I work with the packages as
    follows: every 30th of the month I retract the message pointers
    until the 30th of the previous month and download a package of
    messages. I delete the packages read during the month and keep
    monthly backups of the messages and my replies.
    It works well for me.

    What you are doing would still require keeping separate REP packets.
    What if I decided to reply to a message, then upload the REP packet ?
    -- I would end up with 30 REP packets each month.

    I still don't understand the reason for saving REP packets. All
    messages and my replies are in the QWK packets. If i need to reply
    a old messages simply i make the replies and upload the REP. Don't
    need to use the original REP from the old packet.

    Seems like you want a very personalized (and complicated) way to
    organize a packets collection. A personal arrange.

    On my historical packets from 90's i only used merge programs to
    have few packets to save and simplify data searches.


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