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  Re: Good Pointers
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Mon Jan 19 2026 10:16 am

 > > Except that messages are imported or sorted by "written date".

Of course I meant to write "messages are *not* imported or sorted by written
date"

 > FWIW, sbbsecho seems to do a lot better job keeping messages in such an
 > order where, when read in the order posted, a discussion can be followed vs.
 > some other tossers/tosser-shims I have used in the past.

I'm not sure why that would be. Maybe other tossers don't unpack bundes in the
day-of-week order? I seem to recall that much older versions of SBBSecho
didn't .

 >
 > I rarely notice ftn messages read in sequence seeming out of order here.
 > Usenet groups are about the only place I might notice it, and I suspect
 > that is something that happens before sbbsecho gets hold of the messages.
 >
 >
 >  * SLMR 2.1a * Only sheep make baaaad puns.
-- 
                                            digital man (rob)

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