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Article #1294Re: Turnpike: mail formats and encryption?
From: Mark Rogers
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 00:00
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John Washington <john@wash.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> Personally I'm always a little worried about compression,
> the way that, on the rare occasion when it does fail, it
> fails catastrophically. I'm one of those who's never let
> Stacker/Doublespace/etc near my drives, no matter how much
> the extra room would be welcome.
I've used Stacker for some time now for non-critical stuff, and had very
few problems (very few = a similar level of problems to those on a non-
Stacked drive). Maybe my time will come, but there isn't too much to lose
if it does. All my news/mail is stored compressed in this way. Any
development work I do, however, is on uncompressed drives.
> 2. I like to have 'unusual' header lines drawn to my attention,
> but I don't want to see run-of-the-mill headers. So a
This would be a useful addition for many users. Also, something which
catches follow-ups so you know where you're posting to is a good idea.
> 3. I'm currently tinkering with my 'name'. At first everything
Most mailreaders allow this, I think. I reply to different mailboxes with
different .sigs, different From: lines, etc.
Mark.
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