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- From: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Subject: Re: TBBS versus RA/Netware
- Message-ID: <12918@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 21:24:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.134133.24287@uvm.edu> <721643537snx@sound.demon.co.uk> <1992Nov17.184131.60943@cc.usu.edu>
- Reply-To: toma@sail.labs.tek.com
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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- In article <1992Nov17.184131.60943@cc.usu.edu> sl9dm@cc.usu.edu writes:
- >In article <721643537snx@sound.demon.co.uk>, Rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth) writes:
- >> OK, here's my situation:
- >> I'm running RemoteAccess (great s/w!), and I have:
- [...]
- >> Upgrading to 3 lines would mean either...
- > d. RemoteAccess? = 1 machine <grin>
-
- >YOu have RA running fine with 2 lines, just add another DIR, another CONFIG.RA
- >and any changed .RA/.BBS files to that directory.
-
- I agree on this choice.
-
- >for Another, TBBS has a limit of 64
- >message/file areas I belive the count is. and cann't go above 62,000 messages
- >TOTAL. IMHO It's best to stick with RA!
-
- RA is limited to rougly 16,000 messages (limit is 16megs, and a message seems
- to take a minimum of 1k), so it has no advantage here. It has a 200 area
- limit, which for message areas tends to be bogus since that works out to be
- 80 messages per area (not much of an archive).
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- Tom Almy
- toma@sail.labs.tek.com
- Standard Disclaimers Apply
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