Hello Steve,
Tuesday, July 25, 2000, 7:46:10 AM, you wrote:
SL> Monday, July 24, 2000, 11:40:58 PM, Thomas wrote:
MW>>> A stupid question,
>> No such thing.
SL> If a chicken and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half how
SL> long does it take a man with one wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a
SL> dill pickle?
SL> I love it when people say that. :)
>> I have set for this TBUDL folder under Folder/Properties: Keep mesage
>> in base for 15 days. If I hit "purge" all messages older than 15 days
>> will be deleted. Of course, I always hit "purge & compress", so they
>> are really deleted from the database file.
SL> Actually, a more accurate way to describe it is to state that purge marks
SL> messages for deletion while compress actually deletes them. Better than
SL> confusing more individuals with deleted versus /really/ deleted.
SL> "What's a /false/ move? Does it differ /very/ from a real one?" -- Delerium,
SL> Brief Lives
It's because a database has records which can be logically or
physically deleted. Purge logically deletes records which speeds up
searching while compress actually deletes the records. All this is
according to my old A-Level computing textbook.
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>From Jamie Dainton [Work]
Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:17:45 AM
The Bat! 1.45 S/MIME
Windows 98 4.10 2222
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