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     Re: a classic QWK areas shifting problem   
     By: mark lewis to August Abolins on Mon Feb 07 2022 02:40 am   
      
    >   
    >  On 2022 Feb 06 13:24:00, you wrote to me:   
    >   
    >  SD>>>>> MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06   
    >  SP>>> Hmm wrong board for this isnt it 8)   
    >   
    >  ml>> this was a classic QWK areas shifting problem that happens when areas   
    >  ml>> are added or moved... if QWK used actual area tags instead of   
    >  ml>> numbers, this wouldn't happen but it is long past the time when this   
    >  ml>> could have been fixed in the implementation...   
    >   
    >  AA> QWK system/distribution has "classic" problems?   
    >   
    > it is a long-standing (aka classic) problem for QWK setups... QWK uses   
    > message area numbers to identify message areas... if a BBS adds a message   
    > area, all the areas after it are pushed down another number... so when a   
    > user has written a message in area #4 and the BBS has added a new area as   
    > #3, the user's message is posted to the new #4 instead of the old one which   
    > is now #5...   
      
   Some BBSes may work that way, but not all. Synchronet, for example, has long   
   supported 'static QWK conference number' assignment, so re-arrangement of   
   message areas by the sysop does not have to mess-up users' (or QWKnet nodes')   
   pending REP packets (resulting in the problem you described).   
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