Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

[Dave Crocker]

At 09:52 AM 12/18/1999 , Peter Deutsch wrote:
>I recall that the general attitude when this was last discussed was that
>preserving drafts was evil, although personally I wasn't convinced. At

Not quite right.  The drafts ARE preserved.  Just sned a note to the 
Secretariat, asking for a specific one, and they can produce it.  The 
problem is that this is inefficient at its base, as well as preventing 
searching.

Your comments about mailing lists archives are on-target.

Richard's comments about patent examiners appears to be correct, but we 
can't do anything about that.

However we CAN make prior art researching MUCH easier for our little piece 
of the world.

d/

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