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Linked Messages
by Ken Goosens, 2-12-90
RBBS 17.4 supports Linked message bases. The concept is what when
doing any kind of message read forward or backwards, RBBS will continue
that read to the linked message base. The gives the caller the ability
to group together message bases so that message operations can be
"global". The chief advantage to the caller is what one read operation
can sweep all the mail in all the conferences, without having to recall
where mail is and join the conferences.
The default in a conference view on logon is to link together all
conferences that the caller belongs to that have any new mail.
When doing an interactive conference view, the caller has the
option to L)ink and D)elink individual conferences.
When doing a join, the caller can link all conferences with any new
mail (S)ince last on) or all conferences in which the caller has new
personal mail (P)ers). Thus "J S" or "J P" are new options. The
join is immediately followed by a join to the first linked conference.
Join N)ext also is the option to join to the next linked conference.
When conferences are linked, any kind of a message read that terminates
with a forward or backwards read results in the option to continue to
the linked conference, provided the read "global" option is selected.
Thus when "2" and "sysop" are the linked conferences,
an "r s g" in the main message base will result in the prompt "Continue
to linked conference 2 ([Y],N)?" "r 30+ g" will also result in the
same query, as will "r l g" or "r 100- g". However, "r s 103 109 g" will not
because it does not terminate with a forward read. The linked conference
will be read just like the original read. Thus a read based on a string
will continue, as will a read of "my" mail. The only difference is
that a forward read will continue as a read "since last message" and
a read backwards will contiue as a read from "last message backwards".
The caller can also have RBBS read global without having to do any
confirmation of the automatic join by selecting non-stop
in the read command, such as "r s g c" (read since global continuous).