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On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, David Meade wrote:
> In article <LK12xsi9BcJZ091yn@exo.com>, saw@exo.com (Steve Wright) wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:24:44 -0700,
> > "dmeade@slip.net (David Meade)" wrote:
> >
> >>It's called subtlety. ...
> >>are often used in ways the author didn't necessarily foresee when the
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-prefer??
>
> 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
>
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