Subj : BH+G 2740
To   : Janis Kracht
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Sep 10 2016 17:35:00


10 Sep 16 15:28, you wrote to me:

 >> apparently the BBS added at least one more new message area and pushed
 >> the COOKING echo out of place... this is just one of several problems
 >> that QWK offline mail carries with it :(

 JK> Yep.. I sometimes wish users would log in, read bulletins and THEN run
 JK> their batch files to grab mail, etc.. :)

yeah but that blows the order of operations out... the user probably already 
has a packet to upload which may be the main reason for their connection... 
that packet is based on how the areas looked before the change... unless the 
users have some way to edit/change the raw data files for their replies, i 
don't know how they would be able to handle the situation other than manually 
downloading and replying all over again... i'm just not aware of such tools 
being available but it has been since the '80s that i've done any real offline 
mail stuffs...

some BBSes try to fix this by having two indexes to their message bases... one 
index is the permanent ID number of the area... this number never changes and 
may be idea for use in offline mail like QWK... the other index is used to 
display the areas in whatever sorted order is chosen on the BBS... this number 
can be changed at any time and has no special relationship with the areas' 
definitions or ordering positions...

)\/(ark

Always Mount a Scratch Monkey

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