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Organization: What did you have in mind?  A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> There is one small thing that I can think of that might be improved
> some how.  Those filenames are pretty ridiculous if you do anything
> with those files outside gnus.  Seems like a simple incremental
> numbering scheme once the messags are brought from `new' would work.

It works as long as you never have two processes moving mail from new/
to cur/ at the same time.  Otherwise, you still need an uncoordinated
way to ensure filenames don't collide.


paul