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From: ian@ukpoit.co.uk (Ian Spare)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Compressed folders
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.122033.24265@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 29 Mar 91 12:20:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.224618.1206@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> <1210@intelisc.isc.intel.com> <1991Mar27.013510.15421@proa.sv.dg.com>
Reply-To: ian@ukpoit.co.uk (Ian Spare)
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In article <1991Mar27.013510.15421@proa.sv.dg.com> gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater) writes:
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>If nothing else, separate files would make Cing into a folder go a lot
>quicker for BIG folders.
>-- 

I see your point but I'm not sure I'd personally like that. I have cnews (
amongst others ) saving outbound articles and mails to an elm folder. This is
a useful thing to do , OK it's not the end of world if I can't but I do like
it and I'm sure others use that sort of thing.

Some sort of duplication may work though, I haven't tried this ( or even
thought it through !!! ;-) ) but the seperate index could be held duplicating 
the headers , the trick would be to construct that index if it wasn't there or
update it if a test established it was out of date,

Just a thought !! I think in general compressed folders is a good idea and
would help with my users who seem to keep every mail and news item in a 
folder !!

Cheers Ian
-- 
Ian Spare , iT , Barker Lane , CHESTERFIELD , DERBYS , S40 1DY , GREAT BRITAIN

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