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In article <j6P1bdB8ky0wEAP5@turnpike.com>
   Richard Clayton <richard@turnpike.com> writes:
> 
> Perhaps people who might be interested would let me know so that I can
> judge how much interest there would be. Writing code to unpick these
> files is not IMHO for the dilettante, so serious interest only please.

I'm certainly interested - any move over to Turnpike myself at a later 
stage would certainly depend on knowing how things work. News formats 
would be helpful for similar reasons, although I suspect that they're 
fairly similar.

> we always encrypt. It won't hold up a major government, but I expect it
> will stop people on a network reading mail which they should not.

I've mentioned this to Richard before, but this is a significant 
disincentive to me. An option to have the mail/news stored in a standard 
text format (albeit with binary index files) would be much appreciated. 
Something for the wishlist for future versions?

As someone who runs a few mailing lists, I would imagine that Turnpike is 
a non-starter anyway (Richard?). 

The problem with a tightly integrated package (as Turnpike appears to be) 
is that anything it doesn't offer can't easily be added in later. This is 
fine for as long as Turnpike does everything the user wants, but an 
experienced user it is likely to be very frustrating. I'm sure, however, 
that Demon have made a good choice on the basis of what they were trying 
to achieve; the fragile newusers should be a lot better off.

Mark.
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