Subj : perl before swine
To   : mark lewis
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Mon Mar 28 2005 10:34 am

Hey Mark!

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Maurice Kinal replied to mark lewis:

> i should have been more clear and stated "taken from the original local
> message storage format *.MSG"... my local message storage formats doesn't
> look even remotely close the *.MSG ;)

No doubt.  The MSG format is overbloated given the redundancy of each MSG
header.  Little, if any, information there is of value across an entire
archive of messages or of any particular MSG.  It isn't storing anything
that the editor needs to know to create a reply to it.

> you could use MBOX format for local storage if you want to... as long as the
> packed messages in the PKTs and the PKTs conform to current standards...

Okay.  Let us test that.  I took the liberty of running the message I am
replying througn "strings" to rid it of all control codes and then tossed
the result to my username in /var/mail with the appropriate header so that
I could load it in "pine" and read and reply to it, which is what I am
doing as we speak.

So far so good.  Now we'll try going the other way;  this reply should be
converted to a pkt and sent off to my uplink adding the appropriate
headers.

- Maurice


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