Re: [Nmh-workers] rmmproc Not Used for Lots of Messages; refile Copies.

[Christian Neukirchen]

Paul Vixie <address@hidden> writes:

> On 11/26/2012 9:42 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>> Anybody who subscribes to the Linux-kernel list is going to be
>> deleting about 700 messages a day. So if you took a 3-day weekend you
>> can be looking at 2,000+ messages to delete. exmh has some
>> special-case code that does it in chunks of 998 messages at a time. 
>
> using argv[] to carry bulk data is gauche.

A useful convention I have seen lately, but which probably breaks MH
expectations is to allow an argument of "-" to read the *arguments* from
stdin.

find ... | rmm -

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