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to: WILLIAM MCBRINE
from: KEN HRYNCHUK
date: 2004-02-05 04:18:00
subject: Pointers

WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to MONICA NEUFELD on 02-02-04 09:40:

 MN> Is it possible to set the pointers on conferences in Fidonet with your
 MN> offline mail reader?  I already know how to add or drop a conference.

 WM> It is possible, with some doors / BBSes. There's no standard method in
 WM> QWK, which is one reason why the built-in Add/Drop functionality in
 WM> MultiMail is limited to just that. I don't know about Wildcat offhand,
 WM> sorry. (Hmm... mayble SLMR knows, since it has the same author as the
 WM> original Wildcat QWK door... no, it's not giving me an option to set
 WM> the message number.) You could try adding a number (or a negative
 WM> number, like "-50" to include the last 50 messages) after
"ADD " in the
 WM> subject of the control message, but I wouldn't bet on it working.

As I was saying to Monica, RESET -x should do the job, here. It's been
quite a while since I've used it, but I seem to recall that about half
the doors that I've used over the years supported it. IMHO, its
prevalance and usefulness may just warrant an additional parsing of
DOOR.ID. :) IIRC, (and, I may not) RESET can be used without parameters,
instead of ADD.

   Ken

 
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