I have an idea  for minizing the total number of class m  files sitting in our
reader and I wanted to bounce it off you folks to see what you think.
 
My idea  is to write a  Rexx exec which takes  as an argument, a  userid name.
This exec  would transfer  all of  the files from  that userid  to my  class D
postmaster account.   It would than receive  those files into a  new notebook.
This notebook would  contain all of the mail sitting  in that person's reader.
The exec would than send the file back  to the user along with a separate note
explalining what  happened.  The user can  then receive the notebook  and look
through it with the MAILBOOK command.
 
I do not  want to generalize the  exec to look at everyone's  reader because I
only care about the 10 or 20 people who have a large nummber of reader files.
 
This is  a bit  of a  drastic idea,  but it  would work  and has  the two-fold
advantage of cutting  down on the total  number of reader files  on our system
and it let's people read lots of  incoming mail without hitting a memory limit
so quickly since any  one notebook would contain only a  day's mail instead of
all of the mail for the past week or so.
 
Stan Horwitz
Listserv Postmaster
Temple University
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