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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-10-24 11:49 PM, Michael E Fox -
N6MEF wrote:<br>
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You will also see calls appended with an underscore in
area.usr and these indicate errors mostly with a bbs,<br>
a message is not forwarded because something goes wrong with a
transmission, etc. The underscore just means<br>
something like, forget what I have said.<span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hmm. Not
following you there. So if I see an entry in mailbox.usr
like “callsign_ 0”, where “callsign” is a BBS but mailbox is
not an area that I forward to him, what does that mean?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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You will see that only with bbs callsigns normally and with those
areas you forward after some errors.<br>
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> Only the id of the last message is written, so it doesn't
overwrite after each message. Other stuff is kept somewhere else.<span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">O.K. But that
still doesn’t explain the (real) scenario I presented
below. Specifically:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The message
numbers rollover at some point as shown below. So when that
happens, it would seem that the entry in .usr needs some way
to know that smaller message numbers have actually not been
read. And that is the problem. The user is being told “0
new” when, in fact, he is sure that he hasn’t read at least
the last one</span></p>
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They also rollover if you remove spool/mqueue/sequence.seq file but
normally rollover takes a very long time.<br>
I think I believe with you are seeing.<br>
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Erase the wrk file of a public area or rename it to something else.
All messages in that area will be marked as unread and a new wrk
file will be made.<br>
Read for instance the 3 rd or whatever message and only that message
Logout,login and switch to that area and you'll see that not only
that message is<br>
marked as read but all messages before it.<br>
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Is that what you are seeing?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">That would be
nice if I were a C programmer! ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Bob VE3TOK<br>
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Bob VE3TOK<br>
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