> i hunted down the posts yesterday and they seemed very wise.  i truly think
> propreitary file formats that drive people nuts are caused by people with
> "good ideas" on how to "fix things."  mbox is everywhere.  it's not perfect,
> but it's workable. 

Not when you're running it over NFS.  Apart from structured database
systems, the only NFS-safe mailbox format around is Maildir.  Even mh is not
100% reliable in all cases (although it's much better than mbox).

Nick