Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:58:30 -0400
From: RUBEN FIGUEROA
To: EARL BORAH
Subject: RE: Nav 
Newsgroups: win.navigator
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-> -> Whats the basic problem?  


-> However, if the only messages after your last-read marker are message
-> you don't have read rights to (private mail not to/from you), then when
-> you open the conference listed in bold there's nothing new there for you
-> to read. 

Is this a matter of "False Mail Indication"?

-> Improved logic would have wcNav (or the server -- whichever end does
-> this) compare the last-read marker to the high message number, and
-> *THEN* start checking to see if any of the "new" messages are visible to
-> this user. 

Nahh, that would DRASTICALLY slow down the system.  

There is simply isn't any way to solve this problem in an OPTIMAL
manner.

We can probably say that IDEALLY there should be additional visual
information:   

      GREY    - nothing
      RED     - New Mail (Includes Direct Mail)
      BLACK   - New Mail (No Direct Mail)
      
The RED is easy. There is a DIRECT MAIL indicator that.  

But to see if there a new readable mail in a CONFERENCE, that
would DRASTICALLY slow down the system. BIG TIME! 

A regular user would have a NORMALIZED system, meaning that
the differences between the highs and the lows would not
be large.  Hence it "could be" bearable.

But in a large mail system where there LOTS of new mail and
you don't call regularily,  it will KILL him.

Again, there is a Last Read for that user.  Whats in between
that LAST READ and the HIGH MARK, is completely UNKNOWN.

I'm not going to change the logic to READ the messages for
each and every conference listing just to get ACCURATE 
indicator.

The best that can be done is to have some "smarts" built
into the system such as:

   PRIVATE MAIL ONLY CONFERFENCE:
   
      Automatically set pointer to HIGH for user or to
      the first DIRECT message.
      
   PUBLIC ONLY:
   
      Nothing has to be done. Its perfect as it is.
      
   PRIVATE/PUBLIC:
   
      Automatically set pointer to the FIRST DIRECT or
      the FIRST NEW PUBLIC message whichever is the
      the lowest.
      
With this logic, a COLOR system can be use and be
100% accurate.

But this isn't going to happen now.  This would be
most definitely a WINS2000 exploration concept.

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