From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 17:16:19 CDT
ashley@pcraft.com ("Ashley M. Kirchner") writes:
>first place. I much rather have a copy of the message, just don't display it -
>like you suggested, adding a 'msg deleted' type message instead.
>
> This would also avoid having to work around a gap in msgnums, no?
If the only reason for deleting messages is that the author doesn't
want the message made public, then you are probably right.
I suspect that a common reason for deleting messages is that they are
cluttering up the index files (spam, or messages that are of only short-term
interest).
Maybe the best solution is to remove all links from other files that point
to the deleted message, and write it with a "message deleted" in place of the
body?
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