Re: why the new config process is a *big* step backwards

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kaih@khms.westfalen.de said:
> > this is inconsistent with other common things people are
> > familiar with -- in the pine mailer, for example, you can't
> > use a folder both for storing files *and* for having subfolders.
> > and think about bookmarks in a browser (a model i wish the new
> > config process had followed).

> Strange. Filesystems (which everyone should be familiar with)
> certainly do this, and so does (for example) Pegasus Mail with IMAP
> folders ...

> I think Pine and bookmarks are faulty here.

Nah. Pine can do folders containing both mail and subfolders just fine.

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