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From: wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: MH verses the "all in one file" MUAs
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Date: 9 Jul 89 21:41:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: njs@scifi.UUCP's message of 9 Jul 89 14:11:39 GMT

In article <681@scifi.UUCP> njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:

>The babyl format that GNUemacs RMAIL uses also saves information of
>that sort (answered, forwarded, filed, unseen, and user defined tags)
>in an internal format between the messages.  It doesn't add headers,
>and certainly doesn't transmit tags or status with copies of the
>message.

Right. And it does so quite efficiently, too. Why, just look at this RMAIL
file. And be sure to notice that some of the headers are duplicated.

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To: wisner
Subject: babyl stinks
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 89 15:38:44 PDT
From: Bill Wisner <wisner>

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To: wisner
Subject: babyl stinks
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 89 15:38:44 PDT
From: Bill Wisner <wisner>

This message being sent to demonstrate the incredible wastefulness of babyl.

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