Subj : Fmail (2018 Questions)
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Thu Feb 14 2019 10:09 am

Hello Wilfred.

12 Feb 19 21:42, you wrote to me:

 WV> Hi Ozz,


 ON>> I am developing a new JAMAPI (TP version had a few quirks - no
 ON>> longer). I have also modernized it to current class/object
 ON>> structure. I will be incorporating your "Reply Chain" feature
 ON>> into the JAMAPI (I call DXJAMAPI to avoid confusion).

 WV> Well good luck with the porting from C to Pascal! ;)

I do it all day ;-)

 ON>> * Only major wishlist I did not see (may be there) -- a drop file
 ON>> from FMail to me ECHOLIST with new posts via TOSS.

 WV> You mean something like what is in the toss log file but in a more
 WV> machine readable form?

For example, d'Bridge tosser would let me know
FTSC_PUBLIC
FMAIL_HELP
FN_SYSOP

Which my BBS used to circumvent a full scan of 1000+ echos when someone would 
log in, that was on before the most recent toss - I limited their "NEW SCAN" to 
those 3 echos listed above. I have a small DB of userID,array of areas - so it 
only searched the array of areas from JLR forward. *MUCH* faster for a user on 
my systems... especially when I start pulling in newsgroups and any other 
FTN(etwork) I can get coming in.

 ON>> And what is the best way for me to pass such from BBS/NNTP/etc to
 ON>> you for SCAN?

Same going out, I could drop SCANTHIS.LST and simply drop in:
AREA    or    AREA,MSG#

To short-circuit scanning for timestamp or modcounter changes in JAM.

Ozz

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