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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Can you associate user-defined status bits with each message?
Message-ID: <5509:Feb1813:39:5291@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 13:39:52 GMT
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Okay, thanks for all the help. In case anyone cares, I'm now using mh
with multiple folders (each message is linked into either +read,
+unread, or +noread, as well as either +reply, +unreply, or +noreply,
as well as +archive mode 0500, etc., etc., etc.). To solve the problem
of finding out which folders a message is in, I'm using refile -preserve
religiously, with some safeguards to make sure I don't refile -preserve
a message into the same folder (hence wiping it out---not good). I'm
using annotations for longer-term notes and sequences for short-term
manipulations; 10 sequences just aren't enough for the status bits I
need. (Btw, nobody mentioned that anno needs -inplace for messages
linked into several folders; this was a surprise at first.)

Now I just need to add fast indexing, kludge in an NNTP interface, and
catch up on several hundred messages... :-(  Does anyone have an NNTP
reader, or is there just the mh-6.7/miscellany/netnews stuff?

---Dan