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to: Leonard Erickson
from: andrew clarke
date: 1996-11-11 00:54:24
subject: Re: generic api

07 Nov 96 01:20, Leonard Erickson wrote to Arnold Hendriks:

 AH>> If every message is a single file, you will have a slack for every
 AH>> message, the 'left-over' part of the cluster you're not using. 

 > Ah! You aren't aware of the fact that this *is* the way things are
 > stored, unless you import your internet traffic to a BBS messagebase.

 > Try running Waffle, and the other programs that handle Internet traffic
 > directly. Or just try running *any* Unix mail or news software.

I would not say any.  For instance Pine stores groups of messages in a
single file.  Unless I have mistaken your point?

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