Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Using ELM to store news
Message-ID: <212@becker.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 04:14:07 GMT
References: <471@ivucsb.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 32

In article <471@ivucsb.UUCP> todd@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:
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|I've found elm to be very handy for filing away news articles that
|I want to save.  I use RN, so from the article reading level, I
|type
|
||rmail todd&
|
|This will mail the message to me with the header attatched, so ELM
|thinks that the message was actually mailed to me.  So, in ELM, I
|see who wrote the article, when it was written, and the subject.
|After each RN session, I boot ELM and file each message in an
|appropriate subject mailbox.  This is much better than simply saving
|each message from RN and having it appended to a huge file.  It is
|much easier to retrieve articles this way.
|[...]
|Todd Day  |  ..!apple!comdesign!ivucsb!todd  |  todd@ivucsb.UUCP
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There's no need to type so much in 'rn' - jusr use "s", and then
when you want to retrieve it later say:

	elm -f ~/News/Comp.mail/elm

and let 'elm' do the work you want...

Cheers,
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