Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!emory!att!ucbvax!ENG.UMD.EDU!ziegast From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Checking out messages to a mailing list. Message-ID: <9104201612.AA16307@jolt.eng.umd.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 16:12:09 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 Jerry Peek writes: >No matter which way you access the shared folder, you can annotate messages >in it to show who's done what with them. For example, to put > X-fixed: > X-fixed: Joan Smith >in the header of the current message, you could type: > % anno -component X-fixed -text 'Joan Smith' >The pick(1) command can search for these anno(1) strings. I was thinking about that before I looked into using sequences instead. Isn't there alot of overhead used by pick (especially for long lists)? I figured that a sequence is only one line to process, while using pick could be upwards of 50 to 10000+. ________________________________________________________________________ Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)