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1)

The documentation for deleting a message says this:

mh-delete-msg:
Mark the specified MESSAGE(s) (default: displayed message) for later
deletion.
If (optional) prefix argument provided, then prompt for the message sequence.

"MESSAGE(s)" implies that multiple messages can be deleted at once.
How can I do multiple messages?  I tried typing '5d' so that the
current message plus the next 4 messages would be marked for deletion.
Instead, I was prompted for a 'message sequence' (which is consistent
with the documentation, actually).

It's real handy to use mh-search-folder to select a bunch of messages
and put them in a sequence and then delete them all at once with the
<prefarg>d command.  That's definitely a time saver.

On the other hand, it seems very intuitive to me to be able to mark
the next N messages for deletion (or refile them into another folder).
Is there a command to do this?  If there isn't, does anyone have ideas
on how to implement it?

2)

Has anyone written a good comparison of 
	rmail
	mh-e
	vm

All three are mail-reading packages in emacs.  A critique of each
package's advantages and disadvantages, how they're similar, how
they're different?  Why would someone prefer one over the other?  Are
they all equally easy to use?  Are there other emacs packages that are
better?

Off the top of my head, here are some advantages and disadvantages:

One disadvantage of mh-e is that there are no Info files, so it's
difficult to use because I can't get much on-line help, unless I read
the lisp code.  An advantage of mh-e is that it comes with the emacs
distribution.  However, because the documentation within emacs is
poor, one doesn't know it exists unless one reads the gnu.emacs.*
newsgroups.

One advantage of rmail is that it comes with the emacs distribution
and has also Info documentation.

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