The message pointer loading/saving performance issues were resolved in July of 2018.2000 sub-boards should be no problem today (at least for message pointer loading/saving).
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From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Fri Apr 15 22:44:13 2022