Babyl

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From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 00:47

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I hate Babyl format.  When VM 5 appeared, I was overjoyed to be able
to use a plain-ASCII, easily understood format.  You can't just cat
two Babyl files together like you can From_ folders.  When Rmail
corrupts a folder by munging the headers (which it did several times
on me before I switched to VM), I have no idea of how to fix it.  I can
easily reconstruct anything that's missing or bogus in From_ files.
I can edit messages without fear of the headers getting out of sync.

Processing MH folders a lot of overhead from opening lots of files
and wastes a lot of disk space because of minimum fragment sizes.
Other than those problems, they're ok.
--
David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>

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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
Subject: Babyl
Message-ID: <DJM.92Mar9194708@frob.eng.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 00:47:08 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland
In-Reply-To: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net's message of Mon, 9 Mar 92 19:21:42 -0500
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