Subj : Javascript weirdness
To   : deon
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Apr 17 2022 21:17:06

  Re: Javascript weirdness
  By: deon to Digital Man on Mon Apr 18 2022 12:42 pm

 >   Re: Javascript weirdness
 >   By: Digital Man to deon on Sun Apr 17 2022 06:41 pm
 >
 >  > I suspect something else is afoot there.
 >
 >  > This method of counting/collecting messages with a 'tags' header field
 >  > works for me, without any calls to write():
 >
 > Yeah for me, its not happening on every msg area - on my laptop I only have
 > 4 or 5 with messages in (and a low number of messages), and it's only
 > happening to this one message base.

Try using a simple script, like the one I pasted?

 >  > Generally, message headers aren't updated/extended after the message has
 >  > been added/imported, so this isn't usually a problem.
 >
 > Ahh, OK so tagging messages after they are received is not guaranteed?

Not without some padding to accomodate the extra data having been assured to always be there. And then there would still be *some* limit to how much additional data (e.g. the length of the tags header field data) you could add. I could add an option to always pad headers for specific message bases, if this is something you need. I'm not clear on the use case. It was expected that a message author would add tags to their message at the time of posting their message, if they wanted to. Not after.
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