[Ftnpl-develop] Wrong direction.

[Russ J. <ru...@di...>]

I think we might be heading in the wrong direction. Rather than spend a 
week on problems I'm coming up with for the current method, I think we 
should go back to the original idea of pumping these messages into mySQL. 
The code to split the message into variables is solid. I just need to know 
how to write to the db.

The problems I'm running into are several. The biggest of which is 
maintenance. If I set up a limit to the number of messages, much depends on 
how the OS reads the directory from the drive, and how the entries are 
sorted. In addition, this is causing problems with tossing messages, 
because once some messages are deleted, it reuses those entries, so the 
high message routine always finds the same message as the high message.

While these problems can be overcome, I think we need to figure out if 
that's actually a direction we want to go, or if we want to pursue the 
mySQL stuff.

Russ Johnson
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