On 7/6/06, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 2006-07-06 19:41:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why a database? They are not as malleable as text.
Huh?

grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox
archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from, silklist.subject WHERE ...
is just too painful to consider.

Thaths
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