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     Re: Good Pointers   
     By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Mon Jan 19 2026 10:16 am   
      
    > > Except that messages are imported or sorted by "written date".   
      
   Of course I meant to write "messages are *not* imported or sorted by written   
   date"   
      
    > FWIW, sbbsecho seems to do a lot better job keeping messages in such an   
    > order where, when read in the order posted, a discussion can be followed vs.   
    > some other tossers/tosser-shims I have used in the past.   
      
   I'm not sure why that would be. Maybe other tossers don't unpack bundes in the   
   day-of-week order? I seem to recall that much older versions of SBBSecho   
   didn't .   
      
    >   
    > I rarely notice ftn messages read in sequence seeming out of order here.   
    > Usenet groups are about the only place I might notice it, and I suspect   
    > that is something that happens before sbbsecho gets hold of the messages.   
    >   
    >   
    >  * SLMR 2.1a * Only sheep make baaaad puns.   
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