On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Julian King wrote:
> I haven't ever used this feature, but only because I wasn't aware of
> it. Otherwise I would have used it when clearing mail queues on
> machines where I knew that the top 'n' messages weren't going to shift,
> and have started them from n+1. Admittedly I won't miss the feature, and
> would just continue using exim -bp | tail |sed|othermagic
>
> Not a real objection so much as an observation of its possible use.
Since I posted, I have realized that the feature can be retained, though
in a less efficient implementation. Given that it's rare, I don't think
this matters.
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