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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:57:58 GMT
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- From: Ned Freed <NED@SIGURD.INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: Notes channel questions
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- 14 Jan 1993 16:21:26 -0500 (EST)"
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- > The NOTES_CHANNEL options allows you to define retention times for the
- > topic headers in the .subjects file. Does this only control retention
- > of headers or will it purge of the related notes in the conference too?
-
- Purging notes out of conferences is up to VAX NOTES, not PMDF. I assume that
- this is a solved problem since the ability to do this is an essential part of
- practically any use for VAX NOTES I can think of. Does anyone on the
- list have some advice on how to do this?
-
- > Assuming future development of this channel will allow bidirectional
- > operations, are there plans to have some sort of learn command to allow
- > the channel to connect to an existing NOTES conference?
-
- This certainly isn't a planned enhancement since it does not make sense.
- Consider: You're connecting a new source of traffic to the conference, which by
- definition cannot be associated with any previous traffic. Any duplication of
- subject information is therefore coincidental and meaningless.
-
- > Also the current channel doesn't handle posting to a conference which
- > is set /REPLY_ONLY very gracefully.
-
- > I get the following ACCVIO:
-
- This is a known bug that was fixed in PMDF 4.1-14. Contact sales@innosoft.com
- if you need to arrange to obtain this or any other update.
-
- Ned
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