How do messages get removed after no one has posted or a while on the chatterbox

I'm writing my own chatterbox, to intigrate into my computing project and am wondering how, after no one has posted something on the chatterbox on this site for a while messages get deleted.

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Re: How do messages get removed after no one has posted or a while on the chatterbox by arturo (Vicar) on Feb 26, 2001 at 23:52 UTC
Each line in the CB is stored with a timestamp. You can see this by viewing the chatterbox xml ticker (warning: you'll need to be using IE 5+ and/or Netscape6 / Mozilla to see it without viewing source) . When the difference between the current time and the timestamp is greater than a certain value, the line is removed from the list. Note also that the CB is designed to purge older lines after a certain amount of material has ended up in the CB (when everybody's talking, it scrolls by pretty quick). Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor	[reply]
Re: How do messages get removed after no one has posted or a while on the chatterbox by a (Friar) on Feb 27, 2001 at 10:17 UTC
Did you look at merlyn's small talk column from WebTechniques magazine (its a great, free (for me, anyway) magazine)? 95 line chatterbox-ish app. a	[reply]