World: r3wp

I use it as a knowledgebase

Oh :-)

That's very lightweight

Could replace the whole RebelBB/Dovecot thing with a REBOL script 
in an evening :-)

It's supposed to be scaleable :)

It would be :-)

I actually stripped out all the html and compress the data which 
is then downloaded by a rebol client

Aargh. How about just doing this with REBOL/Services?

then I would have to write a bbs ( again again again ) in Rebol!

Well, if you call a table of hundred lines a BBS :-)

Is it even updated through a web interface, or just through the REBOL 
client?

registration is via the web ...

OK

but messages are thru the Rebol client

Odd. Doesn't sound like a problem to combine it?

Saved me time :)

http://www.compkarori.co.nz:9000/cgi-bin/rebelBB.cgi

Sounds like it costs more time to configure all the pieces (and keep 
them running on time) then to write it in REBOL

Similar considerations made me build two operating systems instead 
of keeping messing with Linux and Windows

the idea was to avoid writing any specific rebol scripts

But you did, for the REBOL client, and the time?

and to avoid messing with dbms

But you configured an IMAP database?

sure ...

well, there's only one user ... the rebelbb script.

I'll let it go around in my brain and keep you posted on my work

I did try using yahoo mail as the imap server but there was too much 
latency

Have you worked with REBOL/Services?

No

Just the Beer implementation

Does your REBOL client just download a file?

it does an async read of the messages

Oh, IMAP of course

Did the first build run of a stripped Syllable Server last night. 
Worked right away. Stripping out things such as printing and scanning 
reduced the footprint from 370 MB to under 250

That's with all the REBOL goodies still in :-)

How much do the REBOL goodies take up?

what is scanning doing in a server build?

I'm sure someone could think up a scanning server. :-) Document archiving 
or in an embedded device or so

In any case, the regular Syllable Server is meant to be full-featured

The REBOL goodies are tiny, of course

REBOL/Core is 700 KB and that includes rebbase and a bit of documentation

Cheyenne and QuarterMaster combined are 520 KB

The rest is just tens of kilobytes

So there are not likely to be any Server versions with the REBOL 
stuff left out :-)

In contrast, Ruby, which is only there for an Amazon S3 script, and 
which is one of the smallest popular languages, takes 11 MB

Oh, ORCA takes about 450 KB, including the library and the documentation

so, do you have a ruby script that backs up the server data to S3?

Yeah, it's the standard S3Sync tool that's included. Read the Server 
manual for an example of backing up a directory

By the way, I got us on DistroWatch, the main index of Linux distributions:

http://distrowatch.com/syllable