Subj : Re: The Documentary...
To   : sinister x
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 12:55 pm

  Re: Re: The Documentary...
  By: sinister x to Deuce on Mon Aug 22 2005 12:42 pm

 > 
 >  > I'm pretty sure you can update scan pointers from JS already... Yeah,
 >  > msg_area.grp_list.sub_list[].scan_ptr
 > 
 > I was actually thinking of going ahead and writing a message reader for
 > synchronet in js that would be a fullscreen reader. It'd be totally possible
 > as long as I have it do its own routines for checking either
 > forward/new/search messages. Only problem comes with replies since there's
 > only one bbs.post_msg function and it doesn't take a subject argument. 

Proper threading requires more than just the subject. There is no "post_reply"
JS method currently, which would really be needed to do this properly.

 > Other
 > than that there's the issue of synchronet asking for new messages and also
 > checking emails in your login which would cause synch to go through the
 > regular reader interface (any way to turn those both off for all users so I
 > can overwrite them with my own routines before starting the command shell?).
 > Basically I would just call my own js prog with arguments and handle all the
 > queries myself for the reader (and change up all my command shells to call
 > that instead of the message reader). But I can't think of a way around the
 > subject line problem without writing my own editor at this point in js to
 > compliment the reader.

Yeah, it's not really designed for an external message reader currently.

                                                  digital man

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