Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Quoting body from a WWWboard posting

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 09:59 -0600 07/22/1999, Linda Hardesty wrote:
>The script is by Matt Wright, "WWWboard". The problem has to do with 
>getting the body of a previous posting quoted properly in a followup 
>posting.

You may want to rethink this project in any case. I was talking to my 
brother yesterday and he mentioned that the university sites that he 
manages are ditching WWWBoard for several reasons, but the main one 
is that while trying to figure out what was consuming huge amounts of 
disk space, he learned that WWWBoard indiscriminately reproduces 
copies of files attached to posted messages. I'm not sure exactly 
what triggers this in day to day operation, but he found one 35k 
attachment that had been replicated 11,000 times since November. 
That's a pretty remarkable achievement and there's no telling what 
other Real Life problems Mr. Wright may not have thought about. Use 
this at your peril.


Richard Gordon
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Gordon Consulting & Design
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