Re: Babyl

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From: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 01:06

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The only objections I've ever heard against BABYL are "it's not pretty" and
"you can't use `cat'".  ("RMAIL is broken" is a seperate issue entirely.)
I don't think either of these have anything to do with the quality of the
file format as it applies to *not gratuitously throwing away information*.

> I can edit messages without fear of the headers getting out of sync.

I assert that the headers should never be "in sync."  The *original*
*unedited* headers should always be available, no matter what you do to
the set of headers that are normally shown to you.

	-- Jamie

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