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Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:05:00 +0000
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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> upas/fs centralises the parsing (and access to mail storage),
> so that neither acme mail nor upas/nedmail need to do quite
> as much parsing as most mail readers (for instance, upas/fs
> deals with mime).

it's also important so that programs can see mime parts as
regular files, so they can be viewed, plumbed, grepped, etc.