Subject: Here's an idea

From: John Hench <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:09:58 +0000 (GMT)

Dear Pine developers,

I had an idea that might be of use.  Sometimes I
accidentally delete a letter and because I have 
become so used to the prompts and answer them 
so quickly, I sometimes end up deleting the file
even though I'm asked if I really want to do
this.  Could pine encorporate a "waste-basket" or
a "file 13" that would collect all of these 
discarded letters just to be safe? It could 
delete the file periodically so at least you
would have a chance to recover the file.

The idea is like this. Say there were two waste
files - "File-13" and "File-14".  When PINE
starts up, it would delete one of these files,
say "File-13".  When it closes, it would move all
deleted files to the now emptied "File-13".  The
next time Pine started, it would delete "File-14"
and when it closed it would move all deleted
files to "File-14". With this strategy, if I made
a mistake and wanted to restore one of the
letters that I had deleted, I would have at least
one last chance to move that letter back into one
of my save files. BTW, you needn't make this
option so transparent - it could be incorporated
in a "Restore Lost Letters" command.

What do you think? Cheers, John

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 Dr. J.J. Hench  
 Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Reading, England   
 Institute of Informatics and Automation, Prague
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From: John de Boer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 06:05:52 +1100 (EST)

John

Seems to me the proposed enhancement is to accomodate the symptom
of a problem rather than attacking - and eliminating - the cause of it.

The solution to your problem may lie in the first para below. Are the
prompts not designed properly? How can that aspect be improved to reduce
or eliminate unintended deletions?

I too receive a lot (?) of mail (200-300 messages/day) but have not 
experienced the problem you described.

> What do you think? Cheers, John

Rgds

John de Boer

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