TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 1:129/215 3f8a0ee6   
   REPLY: <1a20b46d-a97a-47d3-ad79-99eb5faabf35n@googlegroups.com> 98a18bd8   
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    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)   
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