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Re: reprocessing an mbox of mail already received

2002-05-13 05:12:42
| Yeah yea, I thought of that to. If I was writing a procmail recipe, I might
| actually be worried about super-efficiency. For a one-off command line, it
| didn't seem a big deal to worry about the efficiency of < vers. cat |.

So tell me, Mr. Edelstein, exactly what is the advantage of "cat one-file |
process" that makes up for its comparative inefficiency?  "The disadvantage is
small" is a point worth making only when the advantage is greater, not when
the advantage is nonexistent.  Additionally, doing it when the disadvantage is
small reinforces a bad habit, and telling others to do it fosters a bad habit
in them.

You have no counterargument here.



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