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|    August Abolins to Maurice Kinal    |
|    which is why I built my own..    |
|    27 Dec 25 10:17:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 27d478c5       REPLY: 1:153/7001 694f30aa       PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0500       Hello Maurice!              ** On Saturday 27.12.25 - 01:04, you wrote:               >> So, basically you list your messages with ls?               MK> As of this writing, all incoming is dumped into a single        MK> file with individual msgs occupying a line. Thus "wc -l"        MK> incoming.file will yeild the number of msgs in the file.               MK> Each msg (line) contains five fields;        MK> $DateTime\0$To\0$From\0$Subject\0\$Body\n              One line per message.. sounds very efficient. +1                      >> And I suppose you can't display msgid-relationships for navigating a        >> thread?               MK> Yes. kludges are part of $Body and are easily be        MK> 'grep'ped from that field. They stick out like a sore        MK> thumb given the leading '\1' character. However I could        MK> easily be convinced to putting kludges into their own        MK> field.              You'd need extra logic to produce a FULL list of threaded/        connected messages. But two at a time isn't too bad.              You should produce a vid illustrating how you do typical        reading/searching/replying activities.              --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.64        * Origin: (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 50/22 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187 129/14 153/757       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 30 110 203/0 218/700 221/1 6 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 112 134 206 300 317 400 426 428 470 664 700 705 240/1120       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 263/1 266/512 280/464 5003 291/111 292/8125 301/1       SEEN-BY: 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58       SEEN-BY: 460/256 1124 5858 633/280 712/848 770/1 902/26 5020/400 8912       SEEN-BY: 5054/30 5075/35       PATH: 221/1 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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