Agreed.
>I also have to put my throw in my 2 cents here - I have what I think
>is a valid use for both Expire -o & -r. So, does that mean that part
>of me is modern & the other part a BBS die-hard? :-) [BTW, When I
>was on a BBS I used another excellent database reader- RoboMail]
I use the product the same way. Please note that I was the person that
was told to leave Usenet and go back to the BBS's. My comment was a
response to that statement.
>I use -o only occasionally ...
>OTOH, I am diabetic and have the last 6-7 months of msgs in a diabetic
>newsgroups & mailing list, plus a couple of others that I keep as a
>kind of 'database' of information. To me that's one of the primary
>reasons I have used Yarn for so long - (that & the great text search
>features). Shouldn't a database type reader be able to be used as a
>database?
You and I use the product in the exact same way, I also keep m.h.d
(and others) for a long time for the exact same resons.
>What I would like to see is (simply??) a little program that would
>simply repack my database, re-indexing (or whatever Yarn does) AND
>reusing the empty space for the long-term storage groups.... Oh, and I
>don't want it resetting any Keep dates. I won't run rebuild unless
>forced to. Maybe a separate utility, if Chin wouldn't mind and
>someone would take up the challenge?
Agree completely. I would be better if Chin wrote it though, that way
it would always be in perfect sync with the product. Of course, it
would need to release the empty space at the end, but I know that you
meant that.
David
-- David Meade Internet=dmeade@netcom.com Oakland, CA dmeade@slip.net