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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Midgley wrote: > On Friday 20 June 2003 07:06, you wrote: > > <lazily> is there a reverse transition available? http://home.uninet.ee/~ragnar/2md/ Although whether your mail package upgrade will do it when the time comes.... > Or, <warming and becoming more serious> there is in general > probably a need to retain at least one's sent mail for at least > 6 years if it involves anything remotely like business. > > I see a need for a format in which a collection of mail can be > parked, and can be expected to be readable and searchable for > quite a few years to come. I don't ;-) My mail is parked in an IMAP4 server* (the server uses a mailbox like format, optional, it could be maildir), but the point is I don't care. If I have to migrate to a different server all I need is a client that speaks IMAP4 and the new servers protocol. Although it is comforting to know that the underlying format is simple enough to "edit" should the server cease to function for some data related reason, it isn't an absolute requirement if the back-up/recovery scheme is solid. Hmm do Doctors typically spool of a copy of all emails to a safe archive, before spewing them through spam filters, mail filters, work-flow systems etc? Should they, or is that super paranoid and setting yourself up for a law suit?! I'm curious as using a challenge-response system to filter spam, people often suggest that statistical filters are "nicer", but I see statistical filters as (usually) providing no protocol for catching false positives, which might be important in a medical context. Simon * Okay it happens to be the PC I use for reading my email so that is probably very wasteful of precious RAM, but it also serves up the "GNU Chess pending bugs folder" to my laptop, and the company mail archives to Faye's PC (running evil empire software). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+8uAoGFXfHI9FVgYRAlA1AJ94ObbXou1Ow5rWnMjsnahpMi6XiACgyX/t OpSLE04ZZmp728yA6+r42UA= =Kf+V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.