Author: Will Singleton
Date: 14:32:07 06/02/98
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On June 02, 1998 at 16:17:05, Tim Mirabile wrote: >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. That's interesting. Seems like you wouldn't want to do that. > >>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. Hmmm... you store the user name and password on the server. I don't think you'd have to store the time but once, when the user logs on. By the way, that would also solve the "problem" of the messages defaulting to 12 hours after posting. Will
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