Subj : Good Pointers
To   : Mortar
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jan 18 2026 07:19 pm

  Re: Good Pointers
  By: Mortar to Digital Man on Sun Jan 18 2026 07:21 pm

 >   Re: Message Base Question
 >   By: Digital Man to Mortar on Sun Jan 18 2026 17:07:44
 >
 >  > 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.
 >
 > Well, since the user can't see the import date (or can they?), makes more
 > sense (IMO) to have the pointers use the date written date, which is more
 > meaningful to the user.

Except that messages are imported or sorted by "written date".
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