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In article <3562@ogccse.ogc.edu> schaefer@ogccse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
> Where have all the References: gone?  Let's hope these attributions are
> correct ...
well, when I followup to an article with too many references, rn dies.
I don't know about anyone else, but I have to remove a couple references
in order for rn to work.

[me]
> } Nevertheless,
> } I never agreed that this was a "bad thing."  [Redundant French deleted.]
> } Not only do I see it as the only option (no other way to do it), I also
> } think it's a good thing to do.
> 
> One would think that this puts the issue to rest.  However, Dan then
> procedes to shoot himself in the foot (or at least the toes):
> 
> }   However, Mush will continue to
> } use the Status: header because this header is useful for other reasons.

> Taking devil's advocate here, if the status is stored in internal data
> structures, what difference does it make whether there is a Status: in
> the folder?

Because Mush advertises itself to be backwards compatible with Mail as
much as possible.  And Mail uses the Status: header.  Thus, mush will
continue to do so.  :-|

One of the [perhaps poor] selling points of Mush is that it can look
just like Mail if configured that way.  Too many times people tell me
that they'd like to install mush at their site, but everyone uses Mail
and they don't want to hinder their productivity by introducing something
new.  Mush comes with a Mailrc file that will make mush look enough like
Mail that most [naive] users can't tell the difference.  However, it can
also be configured to look like vi or emacs in the "curses mode" or like
csh in the "tty mode".  The suntools mode doesn't look like sun's mailtool
because it was written before mailtool was (sunOS 2.0).


dan <island!argv@sun.com>
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