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- From: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: News-Readers
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 17:33:15 MET
- Organization: University of Troms°, Norway
- Message-ID: <1996Jan5.173315@hstud6.cs.uit.no>
- References: <john.006o@python.southern.co.nz> <548.6572T676T993@jroger.in-berlin.de> <19951231.7243078.C70E@dmz.medstroms.se> <873.6574T465T981@icenet.no> <9601050029.AA001m6@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <9601050029.AA001m6@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>, Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >>>What I don't like about THOR is that it does not store the
- >>>message database in a standardized format. I want it in the
- >>>standard format where one message is one file, and it all
- >>>is in UUNEWS: and the messages for comp.sys.amiga.applications
- >>>is in UUNEWS:comp/sys/amiga/applications.
- >>
- >> This is because a custom format is far faster, not to mention more space
- >> efficient.
- >
- > Not to mention that you're then locked into using Thor for evermore or lose
- > your e-mail database.
-
- Not at all, just save the EMail messages out to disk using save in the menu.
- They are stored in regular mailbox format, which can be read back into Elm or
- whatever. It shouldn't be hard to make an arexx script to save messages back
- into the news tree if you really wanted that for some reason.
-
-
- |> /// A M M I GGGGG A Steve Powell G4WYC
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