[Gllug] Mailbox compacting

[Nix]

On 29 Mar 2007, Richard Cohen outgrape:

> On 29/03/07, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 28 Mar 2007, t. clarke uttered the following:
>> > I am not sure whether this is remotely relevant or helpful as I am not
>> sure
>> > about 'mailbox' format!    Our emails (on a SCO box) are held in  what I
>> think
>> > is mbox format of  4 delimiting binary ones at the start and end of each
>> email.
>>
>> ! That sounds more like babyl format than anything else. I thought that
>> had died a merciful death years ago, except among those poor sods still
>> stuck using Emacs rmail (such as RMS).
>
> Um, I think you'll find it's MMDF format...

Er. Yes.

*slaps self*

Sorry, it's been a good fifteen years since I last met either of them in
anger...

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  --- Bruce Schneier on the shortage of company names
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