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From: Martin Forssén (maf@dtek.chalmers.se)
Date: Tue Mar 03 1998 - 20:28:08 MET


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        Hello

I have now moved the ratatosk lists into smartlist. That means that
list administration is now automated, but foremost this means that the
ratatosk list now only accepts submissions from already subscribed
persons. That should seriously cut down the amount of spam.

The ratatosk-announce list has also been moved to smartlist, but that
one only allows postings from me:-)

Currently the tkrat develoment moves forward (albeit slowly, small
children occupy an awful lot of time:-). The new things so far are:
  * It is now built as a dynamically loadable extension
  * Survives when the mailbox stream dies
  * Checkpoints message flags periodically
  * You can have multiple folder windows open (in different folders)
  * You can toggle flags for a range by draggning
  * You can now also control the sender field
  * there is a window where you can examine which eaders are going to
    be generated when a message is sent
  * TkRat now uses utf-8 internally (and thus requires tcl/tk 8.1).
    This made it possible to remove a number of ugly kludges.

There is still a lot to do before I feel ready to release version 2.0.

        /MaF


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