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From: jwm@SUN4.JHUAPL.EDU (James W. Meritt)
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Subject: Re:  Can I make mail look like news?
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Date: 4 Jun 91 19:55:58 GMT
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Are you running on a unix box?

If so:
>o   automatically separate the mail from this mailing list (and others I may
>subscribe to) from my "personal" mail, and put it in separate mailboxes.  In
>retrospect, it may have been better to have the mailing list mail sent to a
>"dummy" account.

This is easy.

>o   read the mail with a mail reader that has some of the capabilities of rn,
>particularly the ability to follow "threads".  Also, since I plan to make the
>mail available for others to read, something that keeps track of the read
>messages for each user (like rn does) would be nice.

That would be a cute trick

>o   automatically delete messages from the mailbox after a period of time.

Not so surce that I'd want that done in the first place...

Jim Meritt