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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Things I'd like to see in ELM
Keywords: time-out
Message-ID: <4125@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 21:30:13 GMT
References: <2918@osiris.UUCP> <1989Jul31.012922.12548@DSI.COM> <8046@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <230@usource.UUCP>
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In article <230@usource.UUCP> frankb@usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell) writes:
>
>Is there some reason why you guys like to use elm to do
>newmail's job?

Well, for one I use an X11-window workstation for my day-to-day work.  I have a
window that sits iconified on the top-right side of my screen that has elm
running all day.  I've got it set-up to "auto-deiconify-on-output" so when Elm
notices that I have new mail, it pops open for me.

To run {w}newmail, 'twould be a bit of a waste.  I STILL need to start-up elm
to read my mail.  (not really, if you count readmsg. :-)

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		Utek Sustaining Engineering, Tektronix Inc.
jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM	Member of the Elm development group.