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     The default setting makes GoldED  conform to the JAMAPI specs  when
     deleting msgs  in JAM  msgbases. This  means that  deleted msgs are
     only marked as such in the  message header, not in the index.  As a
     result, GoldED will find and display the deleted msgs until you run
     a message pack utility to physically remove the deleted msgs.

     If JAMHARDDELETE is  set to Yes,  GoldED will zap  the reference to
     the message in the index  when deleting msgs. This way  the deleted
     msgs will not show up again later. The drawback of this approach is
     that it  is hard  to undelete  msgs, and  may break  other software
     which  assume  100%  to-the-letter  conformance  to the specs. Note
     however, that the hard-delete  method is transparent to  normal use
     of JAM msgbases.  Probably the only  software that might  break are
     undelete utilities.

     For the techies and  programmers, the hard-delete method  is simply
     setting  both  UserCRC  and  HdrOffset  in  the index to 0xFFFFFFFF
     instead of only the UserCRC. According to the JAMAPI specs, a value
     of 0xFFFFFFFF in  HdrOffset means that  "there is no  corresponding
     message header". Sounds remarkably like a deleted msg, right? :-)