On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
>> sysadmins. If we had a similar script trigger for reading, emails could be
>> safely stored in bzip2 format, for example.
>Yuck, why do that? The main charm of Binc is its simplicity and
>transparency, and the minimal number of configuration options.
>Straight text files are great for that! Easy to search, backup, debug,
>understand, move, slice, dice, etc ...
>I shudder when I remember my old Exchange installation. You couldn't
>even back it up without buying special software. <shudder>
>Resist the feature creep, Andy, resist!

Thanks for the feedback, Mike. I'm well aware of the feature monster. ;-)
It's worth considering, but I'm not giving any promises.

Andy

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