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From: thlayli@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lord Thlayli Merriadoc Valentine of Kalakiryande)
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Subject: ACOS Mail Text Files
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Date: 19 Feb 91 23:46:31 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing
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My BBS, Milliways IIN (213) 559-8723, is running an ACOS-based (though loosely)
similar-to-GBBS style mail program.

I would think it likely that a GBBS programmer would be able to understand
my problem, so listen up...

The mail file is taking over Los Angeles. The thing was born at less than 20
blocks, and now is over 260. It is rapidly swallowing all the space I have,
yet the amount of letters actively online is more or less the same as it's
ever been
..

How would you explain this? I am under the assumption that I'm going to 
have to manually dredge out all the active letters and transfer them to
a new, small mailfile. I'm only running 160 users or so; what's the matter
with my system? Old letters *appear* to be deleted, but the file just gets
bigger, and bigger, and bigger...