Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: MH verses the "all in one file" MUAs Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 89 17:01:05 GMT References: <113637@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 18 In-reply-to: argv%eureka@Sun.COM's message of 4 Jul 89 20:35:38 GMT argv%eureka@Sun.COM writes: Remember the reason this whole issue came up. Someone complained/asked about the Status: header and Karl replied by saying that it's "bogus" for the UA to add these headers to messages. Yet in reality, that is exactly what MH is doing, so he defeats his own argument. No, not quite. I said that it's gross. More precisely, grotesque, I suppose. I still think so - anything that has to keep hacking on my mail file(s) after delivery (regardless of whether it's "all in one file" or done piecemeal in individual message filess) is doing something grotesque. I don't use MH, so I can hardly be accused of defeating my own argument. My UA is GNUS for both mail and news; what minimal status I require is maintained in my .newsrc. --Karl PS- So who's singing about this anyway? "verses?" Oh, you meant "versus..."