Re: Message Base Question
By: Mortar to Digital Man on Sun Jan 18 2026 03:52 pm
Re: Message Base Question
By: Digital Man to Tom Moore on Sat Jan 17 2026 19:28:34
The date/time stamps on messages aren't very accurate (especially considering different timezones).
Funny this comes up. I have my msg. pointers set to see msgs. for just the last six months. I was reading a bunch of msgs. yesterday and amongst the 2026 msgs. came several 2020 msgs, then back to the present. Weird.
Message pointers determine what message you'll see in a new-scan based on their *import* date/time, not the date/time they were supposedly written (which is the date/time shown in the message header to users). So, not weird really. Someone just dumped some old messages into a network, it happens a lot.
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