Subj : Reading the scan_ptr for the 'mail sub'
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Mar 23 2015 08:11 pm

  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.

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