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PID: THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
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 Mo> Re: Message Base Question
 Mo> By: Digital Man to Mortar on Sun Jan 18 2026 17:07:44

 Mo> > Message pointers determine what message you'll see in a new-scan based
 Mo> on
 Mo> > their *import* date/time, not the date/time they were supposedly
 Mo> written
 Mo> > (which is the date/time shown in the message header to users). So, not
 Mo> weird
 Mo> > really. Someone just dumped some old messages into a network, it
 Mo> happens a
 Mo> > lot.

 Mo> Well, since the user can't see the import date (or can they?), makes more
 Mo> sense (IMO) to have the pointers use the date written date, which is more
 Mo> meaningful to the user.

I don't know how that would work, every message area would constantly have to
be reindexed if that were the case...

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