From: Tom von Alten (alien@hpdmlad.boi.hp.com)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 17:57:43 CDT
Peter C. McCluskey wrote:
> 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?
It would be very useful to have the ability to cleanly delete
messages. Leaving remnant files behind might be a nice option for
some people, some times, but I would rather have the default behavior
of a "delete" command be to remove a given message and links to it.
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Tom von Alten
My opinion.