Subj : Is there an SQD editor ?
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Mvan Le
Date : Fri Oct 06 2006 12:51 am

 ML> Is there an SQD editor ?

 BJ> To the best of my knowledge, not in the way you are looking for.

 ML> Ack. Sounds like I have to write one - that'd be a -long- way off. 

 ml> i'm still trying to figure out why you'd want to do 
 ml> such a thing... inserting messages between others and 
 ml> realigning everything??

To keep BBS announcements in chronological order as the events actually 
happen(ed), for record keeping purposes perhaps.

Eg. If I make an announcement in a message area on the 5th October Re: "LORD 
Registered", and a couple of days later remember also registering BRE on the 
3rd, I want to create a separate post that's date stamped for 03-Oct-06 and be 
indexed before the 5th October (Lord Registered) announcement.

Current Squish tools that I'm aware of aren't flexible enough for this type of 
manipulation - they only repair/defrag areas, and existing message editors 
don't allow modification of time stamps.

I could update bulletin.mec but that doesn't allow you to move back & forth 
between items, select messages by number or list posts in brief format, or even 
write more than 15 or 20 lines of text (although I do have ideas on how to 
significantly improve the default Maximus bulletin system with these features 
using mecca).


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