Re: the elves have been busy again

Yngvar Folling (yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no)
Sun, 12 May 1996 11:15:51 +0200 (MET DST)

In article <irLlxgC+PBJd090yn@io.org>,
where.waldo.is@io.org (Kirk Smith may not be) wrote:
> A little while back someone mentioned that they wish Yarn eliminated
> the duplicates that tend to accumulate in the MAILED and POSTED folders
> (if you are the type that re-edits your REPLIES a lot-- I do, believe
> it or not!).
>
> I think it would be fair to say that probably everyone wants these
> dupes gone!

[Deleted persuasive arguments to give to Chin.]

Well, sure, but I can think of a *lot* of little quirks I'd say take
priority over this little nuisance.

First of all, I've noticed that NEWS.DAT never shrinks. It doesn't
*grow* any more either, but when EXPIRE reports so-and-so many bytes
deleted, it only seems to mean that this space will be overwritten by
new messages at the next IMPORT. NEWS.DAT doesn't *shrink* by that
amount.

Meaning that when some spammer posts a five-megabyte binary, I can't
reclaim that space on my hard disk afterwards without deleting my entire
news base.

And will Yarn ever get a functioning End key?

Yngvar