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Subject: Re: filter message problem

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 13:17:05 06/02/98

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On May 29, 1998 at 01:01:50, Will Singleton wrote:

>Steve,
>
>Why does the time filter change after I post a message?  I usually enter
>CCC at the filter prompt, and select 24 hours.  But after posting, the
>filter time looks like it changes to about 6 hours (messages are
>missing).  Am I doing something wrong?

This is normal, it goes back to the most recent 12 hours.

>While I'm on it, I've never understood why you can't save the "last time
>visited" for each member.  That would allow folks to read new messages,
>without worrying about the filter.

This might be possible.  It might put a high load on the server though,
since it would have to read and write to some kind of file each time
someone looked at the message list.  With a newsreader, this type of
thing is handled on the client side.  I suppose I could use "cookies" to
store the last time visited on each reader's web browser.  There are
some flaws with this - not everyone uses a web browser with "cookies"
and some who do prefer to disable them.  Also, it would be specific to
each machine - if you read the CCC with more than one machine (or more
than one browser on the same machine), it would only remember the last
time viewed with that browser.



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