Hello mark,   
      
   11 Jul 15 23:16, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml> thanks... i'll have a look but i'm starting to feel like i'm dropping   
    ml> back further and further into the early '90s or late '80s :(   
      
   Before you think that: the original author spent nearly 20 years getting the    
   basic functionality of MBSE working right.  He was more interested in a solid,    
   robust basic system (meaning the BBS and its daemons and intergration into    
   Linux) than adding a bunch of features.  MBSE is still far, far from finished.   
      
   It's an incredibly solid piece of software.  Very, very reliable and    
   well-thoughtout.  However, it is not full of fun features like a macro    
   language, which most of us aren't concerned about.  Remember, more features    
   means more that can break, and I really think MBSE was built on the KISS    
   principal.   
      
   That doesn't mean, however, over time things can change.  There are a lot of    
   undocumented features in MBSE.  I have not the time currently to pour over the    
   source code and look at things, but once my living arrangements and employment    
   stabilize, I'd like to teach myself C by experimenting with MBSE's source    
   code.   
      
   There are a lot of things that need to be fixed in MBSE.  For example, if you    
   look in MBSE's source code at the procedure to pack message bases for offline    
   mail by date, there's just a print line that says "Not implemented yet".  I    
   think that's rather important for me since I have a lot of offline mail users.   
      
   I'd REALLY love to set up filebase grouping so I don't have to enter the same    
   information for each filebase by hand (I have over 50GB of files I want to put    
   in).  For me, that would be an important feature.   
      
   --Sean   
      
   ... Law of Supply: It's yours if you don't need nor want it.   
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20130910   
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