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     Re: Message Pointers / Multi-user Access   
     By: Amessyroom to All on Sun Feb 23 2025 03:37 pm   
      
    > How does message pointers work with synchronet bbs? My understanding is   
    > there is a read pointer and new pointer.  But how do the move when a user   
    > logins in an reads messages, and then returns?   
      
   Message pointers are saved when a user logs-off, disconnects, or uses the '&W'   
   command to save them while logged-on.   
      
    > Can a user of synchronet bbs login more than one time, and the pointers keep   
    > in sync; or if messages are read during a ftelnet session and a synchronet   
    > telnet sessions; could the pointers get skewed/confused due to multiple   
    > access under the same account ?   
      
   The pointers are read during logon and kept in memory until log-   
   ff/disconnect. A second login can use the '&R' command to reload the message   
   pointers from disk if they know the other session has read some messages. The   
   last one to log-off/disconnect will have *their* message pointers saved, but   
   only for the sub-boards they actually read messages in.   
      
    > I've noticed times, when I read messages and I come back a day or two later,   
    > and the pointer has fallen back to messages I have read.   
      
   If you're logging into the terminal server concurrently with the same account,   
   that could explain that.   
      
    > Do DDMSGReader and Native Msg reader work similarly ? I assume they are   
    > using the same pointers, to manage where a user has read to, correct ?   
      
   I think so.   
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