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Reading Personal Messages
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In common with Wildcat! Online Systems, Power-QWK recognises
three types of messages: Public, Private and Personal.
A Public message is a message which may be read by any user of
the online service.
A Private message is a message which may be read only by the
addressee.
A Personal message is any message, Public or Private, which is
addressed to YOU.
When you enter the Power-QWK Offline reader (by selecting
'Offline Reader' at the Main Menu), Power-QWK presents you with a
list of all the available conferences which you can then select
for reading, one at a time. General mail (i.e., mail not
specifically addressed to yourself) is always read in this
manner.
However, you can elect to have Power-QWK present your Personal
messages in one of two ways:
Either altogether, irrespective of conference of origin, when you
first enter the Offline Reader, OR only when you select a
conference containing Personal mail.
Whichever method is chosen, you will always read Personal mail
twice. This is because, although Power-QWK creates a Personal
Message Index, to enable Personal Mail to be read first, when you
read a message via this Index it is not marked as read in the
Main Conference Index.
Extracting Personal messages to be read before others, whilst
sometimes convenient, means that those messages may be read out
of context. That is to say, they may form parts of conversational
threads which could be broken if the message were marked as read
when it had only been seen in isolation.
If you prefer, you can select 'No special treatment' for Personal
messages. This means that Power-QWK will treat Personal messages
just like other messages: you will read them in their correct
sequence when you read each conference, maintaining threads and
reading each message only once before it is marked as 'read'.
If you choose this option, you can still read your Personal
messages first, in each conference, by using a Wildcard search
for messages with your name in the 'To' field (Press F2 when
you have a message on the screen).