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MH verses the "all in one file" MUAs

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From: gregg.g.wonderly
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 18:07
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From article <WISNER.89Jun28221923@anableps.berkeley.edu>, by wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner):
> MH can be instructed to keep track of messages that have not been seen by
> putting them into an "unseen" sequence. It never touches the actual messages
> to do this.
>
> ...
> 
> Note that MH does none of these things unless explicitly told to.

And most of us use the appropriate MHL formats and filters to have them
stripped later.  Note that MHs repl(1) command (for replying to a message)
will allow you to reply multiple times.  The Replied headers are stripped
from the resulting message by the time you see it in the editor to add
your reply.

Just a note...  It has been said many times before...  Those who ignore
the past are doomed to repeat it in the future.  In other words, those
people who continue to implement MUAs that use a single file for
storing all messages seem to continue to replicate all the things that
we hate about those programs.

MH is so elegant and flexible.  It pains me to see all the work people
are doing just to duplicate what has already been done.

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gregg.g.wonderly@att.com   (AT&T bell laboratories)
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Subject: MH verses the "all in one file" MUAs
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