In preparation for a changeover to the way we handle messages,
we'd like your help in two major ways.

Please go through your messages and erase every one you don't
really need. That's the first way.

Then, you may wish to make some sort of backup (not in Achaea!)
of important messages JUST IN CASE something goes wrong during
the change to the new system. That's the second way.

We hope to get the changeover done in the next couple of days,
after which you'll get a couple of fun new features, probably
experience a few oddities that we'll move quickly to fix, and
maybe even see Achaea speed up a bit more again.

Fun facts
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- Stored in Achaea right now are about three million messages.
That's about one thousand messages for every highly active
Achaean!

- Over half of a million messages out there are decay notices.
Are they really that important to you? REALLY?

- The more messages a person has stored, the longer sending a
message to that person takes.

- We monitor performance frequently. In a recent analysis, a
single message sent to a single person was about as costly
as one hundred thousand scans for vibes in a room, or
almost two hundred thousand checks to make sure an
attempt to move is to a valid location.

- This changeover will move us away from a flat-file,
sequential i/o system to a much faster database system.

Penned by my hand on the 17th of Daedalan, in the year 425 AF.