In a message to Anthony about slow .rep processing, Rod said:

AM> What does reply linking mean to us OLR readers?  Or is this only to
AM> do with online reading, and/or pointing?

RS> If you use a decent OLR like OLX |-)
RS> you have a pair of fields in the message head, NUMBER and REPLY
RS> TO. The REPLY TO field contains the number of the message that
RS> this one is a reply to.

Yeah, I have that too Rod!  Just like that piece of shit OLX. |-)

RS> Normally an OLR cant do that reply linking itself cos even tho it knows
RS> the number of the message being replied to, that number may change
RS> between the downloading of the QWK and the uploading of the REP later.
RS> Many systems, particularly the Hudson message base systems like seen
RS> with RA, renumber overnight. PCBoard system almost never do, but they
RS> are exception, most systems have renumbered overnight in the past as
RS> part of the mail maintenance.

Which is why I asked the question, because for us, the messages are
renumbered every day aren't they, and have for every board I've ever
used, and so have never been able to use the feature, and so that's
why I wanted to clarify Pauls message... 

'tnt, Anthony.


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