Sure it would. Why wouldn't it? If these are not incoming folders, does
it matter? Well, I do know that gzip support is an unstable archiving
method, or I have read, and that tar is much more effective.

Why do you see it not being a stable?

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:12:45AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian uttered:
| On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:43:55PM -0700, Jason Helfman typed:
| 
| >Like anything, read the manual. Read the docs. Use at your own risk
| >software is the way it goes with the OSS community. Add it to the
| >README.UPDATE. Why is their reason not to make better documentation
| >available?
| 
| Actually, that's nice when I use open source software on my desktop linux
| box, and am not concerned about a few hundred mails getting corrupted or
| dev/nulled. 
| 
| In a production environment, this would not work at all.
| 
| Of course, RTFM is the first rule _anywhere_, even if you are not
| experimenting :)
| 
| -suresh
| 
| 
| >
| >On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:47:28PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian uttered:
| >| Roberto Suarez Soto proclaimed on mutt-users that: 
| >| 
| >| >  That's the question :-) I wonder why, if it's something that is
| >| >obviously very useful, it's not included in the official distribution of Mutt
| >| >:-? Any religious reason, or the like? :-m :-)
| >| 
| >| Just because it is a pain in the ass to use on incoming mail - and can
| >| easily result in a corrupted mailbox.  gzip is best used to archive old
| >| mails.
| >| 
| >| -- 
| >| Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >| http://www.pcquest.com/june00/linux_spam.asp
| >
| >-- 
| >/helfman
| >
| >"At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has always
| >been in your possession."
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| -- 
| Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's, I
| mean.
|               -- Mark Twain

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