One last question. I notice when I do a rescan the messages are imported in
the order they are unpacked I assume so that say message 5 is from 2018
message 20 is from 2016 message 100 is from 2015 etc etc.

Is there a way to sort the messages so message 1 is the oldest and message
say 55000 is the latest... just as if they had been received if the bbs had been operating for years?

I've got two networks (fsxnet (~99K messages) and fidonet) that I want to set up on Synchronet and make sure I've got all the history of the networks but
not having them in date order makes navigation a bit tough..

Thanks! :)

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Re: Message sorting on rescan?
By: Michael Borthwick to All on Fri Feb 01 2019 06:26 pm

One last question. I notice when I do a rescan the messages are imported in the order they are unpacked I assume so that say message 5 is from 2018 message 20 is from 2016 message 100 is from 2015 etc etc.

Is there a way to sort the messages so message 1 is the oldest and message say 55000 is the latest... just as if they had been received if the bbs had been operating for years?

Are you asking about a rescan from SBBSecho? SBBSecho performs area re-scans using the same order in which messages were originally imported (oldest to newest)... which is already as you're describing.

I've got two networks (fsxnet (~99K messages) and fidonet) that I want to set up on Synchronet and make sure I've got all the history of the networks but
not having them in date order makes navigation a bit tough..

Okay, so it sounds like you're asking about how the rescan function works for other BBS software or tossers? I don't know about that.

digital man

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Are you asking about a rescan from SBBSecho? SBBSecho performs area re-scans using the same order in which messages were originally imported (oldest to newest)... which is already as you're describing.

I send in a netmail to areafix for example %RESCAN D=9999.. the hub sends through about a dozen packets of about 2mb each through to binkd then to sbbsecho.

Problem is the messages get imported into the message bases I guess in the order they are in the packets which seem to be random date wise leaving the message bases scrambled date wise.

There is so much message history in fidonet that I want to keep but not if it turns the message base into a mess :)

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Re: Re: Message sorting on rescan?
By: Michael Borthwick to Digital Man on Fri Feb 01 2019 08:30 pm

Are you asking about a rescan from SBBSecho? SBBSecho performs area re-scans using the same order in which messages were originally imported (oldest to newest)... which is already as you're describing.

I send in a netmail to areafix for example %RESCAN D=9999.. the hub sends through about a dozen packets of about 2mb each through to binkd then to sbbsecho.

Problem is the messages get imported into the message bases I guess in the order they are in the packets which seem to be random date wise leaving the message bases scrambled date wise.

SBBSecho imports the packets sorted by filename. If the filenames are ascending in chronological order (e.g. time stamps or similar), then then the packets will be imported in that order.

There is so much message history in fidonet that I want to keep but not if it turns the message base into a mess :)

Are you sure that your hub is actually putting the messages into packets in chronological order and then naming the packets in a ascending-naming fashion?

digital man

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