Subj : Pointers
To   : WILLIAM MCBRINE
From : MONICA NEUFELD
Date : Tue Feb 03 2004 08:05 am

-=> WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to MONICA NEUFELD on 02-02-04 09:40 <=-

 -=> MONICA NEUFELD wrote to ALL <=-

 MN> Is it possible to set the pointers on conferences in Fidonet with your
 MN> offline mail reader?  I already know how to add or drop a conference.

 WM> It is possible, with some doors / BBSes. There's no standard method in
 WM> QWK, which is one reason why the built-in Add/Drop functionality in
 WM> MultiMail is limited to just that. I don't know about Wildcat offhand,
 WM> sorry. (Hmm... mayble SLMR knows, since it has the same author as the
 WM> original Wildcat QWK door... no, it's not giving me an option to set
 WM> the message number.) You could try adding a number (or a negative
 WM> number, like "-50" to include the last 50 messages) after "ADD " in the
 WM> subject of the control message, but I wouldn't bet on it working.

On a Synchronet board, you can set the pointers for all conferences of
a given network as follows:
To: SBBS
Subject: ALLPTR 02/03/04

If you just want to set the pointer for one conference in a network
(on Synchronet), you do this:
To: SBBS
Subject: SUBPTR 02/03/04

I was hoping that Wildcat boards had such a setup.

.... Mickey / Monica Neufeld 
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