Subj : Message Pointers / Multi-user Access
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From : Amessyroom
Date : 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?

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 ?

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.

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 ?
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Amessyroom
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