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|    g00r00 to Kevin Blalock    |
|    Re: Set Newscan Date    |
|    25 Aug 21 10:35:09    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47       MSGID: 1:129/215 3f8a0ee6       REPLY: <1a20b46d-a97a-47d3-ad79-99eb5faabf35n@googlegroups.com> 98a18bd8       TZUTC: -0400        KB> My appologies, I will try and explain better. Basically when I join a        KB> new FTN and request a %RESCAN to areafix from the hub to download all        KB> previous echonet messages let's say it download 20k messages. That is        KB> all fine and well, the problem is it shows         KB> 20k new messages, and when selecting 'Set Newscan Date' as a user in the        KB> Messages menu of the BBS, and select lets say todays date. Then, I go        KB> open the Indexed MSG Reader, and the majority of message bases still        KB> show New with messages much older than the         KB> date selected.              When you do a rescan with the intent of building a starting point for a       message base, the intent is that your message base is empty. If you rescan and       add older messages after newer messages, then they will show up the way you       describe and I'll explain why:              Message last read pointers are stored by message number not date and time.       When you reset your last read pointers by date, Mystic is going to set the       starting message to the first message that meets the date that you requested...              In other words if you have messages posted on August 15, 2021 before messages       posted January 1st 2021 because you did a rescan with existing messages, then       Mystic must set the starting message to the August 15th message which       technically is a lower message number than the January 1st date.              ... As a matter of fact, it IS a banana in my pocket!              --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/22 (Windows/64)        * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 457 616 123/10 131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/215 305 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 220/80 90 221/0 6 226/18       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 201 702 229/310 424 426 428 452 550 700 981       SEEN-BY: 229/1016 1017 240/1120 5411 5824 5832 5853 5890 6309 249/206       SEEN-BY: 249/307 317 400 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 633/280 770/1 2452/250       SEEN-BY: 2454/119 3634/12       PATH: 129/215 154/10 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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