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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm destroys links!
Summary: I agree, it is a real problem!
Message-ID: <1989Jul24.143005.28036@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 24 Jul 89 14:30:05 GMT
References: <924@pcsbst.UUCP>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <924@pcsbst.UUCP> mike@cochise writes:
>I've just noticed a very annoying thing about ELM 2.2 PL10. The
>situation is as follows:
>
>Wanting to save both in the same folder, I link ~/Mail/xxx to
>~/Mail/x, which seems to work fine as long as I save messages
>sent to my by xxx, ie. I see them in both folders -> the link
>remains. BUT: when I send to the person (using 'M'ail), elm saves
>the message in one of the folders (namely ~/Mail/x) and destroys
>the link to the other !-(.
>
>Can this be considered a bug worth fixing? It certainly bothers a
>lot of people around here.
>--
>Mike Schroeder		PCS-Mail: msc
>DOMAIN:  msc@cochise.pcs.de (EUR) or  msc@cochise.pcs.com  (US)
>BANG:    ..unido!pcsbst!msc (EUR) or  ..pyramid!pcsbst!msc (US)

I agree, this behaviour (which did not occur in 1.5) is a problem.  My
situation is probably very common -- when I correspond with someone
called, say, ia89xp57, I link this mail folder with one called sam or
something that a human is likely to rmember.  That way I can easily find
past correspondence.

The new system is really a problem when cleaning out old files.  How am
I supposed to remember who ia89xp57 is?  So if I decide I am through
with sam, I just echo "" > sam (I have a fancier eraser actually) and
then when I see that ia89xp57 is empty I know that I can safely erase
it.  This unlinking feature of ELM 2 has me tearing my hair out.
-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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