Rod, at 10:10 on Thu, Feb 02 1995, you wrote to Bob Lawrence ...

BL> My definition of a twitter is one that removes all the twitted 
BL> messages, permanently. That's the whole point... gone!

RS> And its not everyones definition of a twitter. Like all design 
RS> issues, its more complex than that.

True, although it is also my definition of what a true twitter should do.

RS> IMO if you want a fancy twitter it has to be in the reader,
RS> not the converter. If only coz the fancier it gets the more
RS> likely you are to want to tune it.

I'm unaware of any OLR or native mailer software which actually removes
messages from the database.  Only accessory apps like WIMM or NetMgr are
capable of doing this AFAIK.  Should be built-in IMO.  |-)

Regards, Bill

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