Re: Reading the scan_ptr for the 'mail sub'
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Mar 23 2015 07:34 pm
> Re: Reading the scan_ptr for the 'mail sub'
> By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sun Mar 22 2015 20:57:58
>
> DM> Users can read their mail out-of-order, so the concept of
> DM> "lastReadMsgIdx" doesn't really apply here.
>
> Users can read messages on sub-boards out of order too though.. The message
> read prompt lets users enter a message number and it will jump directly to
> that message. A user could jump around messages in a sub-board that way.
Right, but we don't store a separate "message read" flag for every message for
every user. That's why we use a single "highest message number read" pointer
for each user for each sub-board. Email uses a different method.
digital man
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