Just a sample of the Echomail archive
Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.
|    JAMNNTPD    |    Support for the JAMNNTPD software client    |    2,630 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 1,717 of 2,630    |
|    Nicholas Boel to Tommi Koivula    |
|    What?    |
|    19 Dec 16 11:24:38    |
      Hello Tommi,              On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:14:34 +0200, Tommi Koivula -> Nicholas Boel wrote:               NB>> So with that said, if I read further than the message I reply to, the        NB>> message wouldn't be scanned?               TK> The lastread pointers are not the watermark. Tosser remembers the last        TK> message it has scanned. If for some reason the messages are renumbered        TK> or something else illegal happens, the tosser may not start scanning at        TK> the right place.               TK> In theory it is possible, but not very likely.              Thanks for the description, Tommi. I understand now - and it may indeed be a       good option for me, since I access the same JAM areas with multiple programs       and editors, so the possibility of illegal things happening seems to be       getting higher and higher. :)              Regards,       Nick              --- slrn/1.0.3 (Linux)        * Origin: thePharcyde_ distribution system (1:154/10)    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca