The bid.bb file stores the bids for the messages your MBO
receives from other MBOs. The number of bids stored will continue to increase
until the GI (reorganize bids) command occurs. This command should be in
your wakeup file to activate once a day.
When the GI command is given your bid.bb file is reorganized
so that only the last 1000 bids are retained in the file. For most MBOs the
last 1000 bids can cover up to two years of bids. The MRQ MBO maintains a
bid count of up to 10000 and then starts the bids over at 100. This occurs
approximately once a year. If the other MBOs store the bids for more than a
year then those MBOs will start rejecting the bids starting at 100 from the
MRQ MBO.
This rejection problem can be eliminated by all MBOs limiting their bid retention to 200 rather than the default 1000. To do this the sysop must change the following statement in the BID Defines section of the parms.bb file.
Change "bid_max = 1000" to bid_max = 200
After you have made this change you must unload AA4RE (Alt x) and then reload it for this change to take affect.