Subj : goated
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Apr 04 2019 19:32:14


 On 2019 Apr 04 23:22:58, you wrote to me:

 ml>> using a hex editor, look at the JLR file for the area in question...
 ml>> the jlr file should be a multiple of 16 because there are 16 bytes
 ml>> allocated to the lastread records for each user...

 RM> There is one user. The file is 16 byte long and looks like this:

 RM> fido@vserv:~/msgbasedir$ hexdump fidonews.jlr
 RM> 0000000 84af 4016 84af 4016

those two are the proper CRC32 values for your name in lowercase...

 RM> 0148 0000 0148 0000

if i've done my math properly, these both point to your last and highest read message numbers in that area as being 328...

)\/(ark

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