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From: jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: Checking out messages to a mailing list.
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Date: 22 Apr 91 16:32:00 GMT
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In message <9104201612.AA16307@jolt.eng.umd.edu>, Eric Ziegast wrote:
> 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.
> >	...
> >The pick(1) command can search for these anno(1) strings.
> 
> Isn't there alot of overhead used by pick (especially for long lists)?

You're right about pick overhead -- it has to read each message file.
But there are some good reasons to use anno and pick: annotations can
have any arbitrary text (like peoples' names, notes about the message,
etc.) that you want to put in them.  They also automatically give you the
date unless you use "-nodate".  If you link or refile the message,
annotations stay with it.  There's no limit on the number of annotations,
but you can only have ten sequences per folder.

If you just want some simple categories of messages within a folder,
sequences would sure be easier and faster.

--Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com or uunet!ora!jerry