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        4NW messages offer practical hints, tips, fresh approaches
        and solutions for problems, that many 4DOS users encounter
        in everyday's computing. Put the 4NW_xxx.MES files in
        a separate directory. They may be of valuable help, when 4HELP
        and 4DOS manuals cannot deliver.

        Structure and form of 4NW_xxx.MES files
        

        The messages files will be posted once a month. Both the
        file and archive take the form 4NW_month/year. Thus 4NW_048
        indicates April 1998. The next issue, containing May
        messages, will be 4NW_058 etc.

        The voluminous (and mostly irrelevant) mail headers in the
        original messages take easily up about a third of each message.
        They have been filtered out, except lines beginning with:

        FROM:
        REPLY-TO:
        SUBJECT:

        For instance, below header...

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         -== Yuval Altman  s3197557@techst02.technion.ac.il ==-
       *** Life is just a sexually transmitted fatal disease. ***         
Path: news.eunet.fi!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!btnet!news.netkonect.net!linux.nildram.co.uk!usenet
From: David Cantrell <david@integration.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.4dos
Date: 6 Sep 1995 08:17:58 GMT
Subject: Win 95 and lock
Organization: Network & Data Integration
Lines: 3
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <42jlfm$mki@linux.nildram.co.uk>
References: <4145tm$pn1@bingnet1.cc.binghamton.edu> <41c4bb$l32@dole.uninett.no>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp7.nildram.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b3 (Windows; I; 16bit)
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

        ...has been reduced to....

───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       *** Life is just a sexually transmitted fatal disease. ***         
FROM: David Cantrell <david@integration.co.uk>
SUBJECT: Win 95 and lock
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

        This decreases the size of the message file considerably and
        increases its readability quite a bit. However, mail addresses
        of the sender and receiver stay intact in case that a reader
        wishes to comment a message or get mailwise in contact with
        the message writer.

        To improve further the readability of the message files encoded
        files (COM EXE ZIP) in 4NW_xxx files will be removed and decoded.
        They can be found as binary files in an embedded DECODxxx.ZIP
        archive. Chain letters, commercial, religious and sex crap will be
        entirely eliminated - spamming to user groups has become a new plague.
        Extreme long .BTMs and other listings, though not encoded, will be
        moved to DECODxxx.ZIP, too.

        File INDEX98.SUB composed of ·Subject:· lines in message files
        may come handy for quick keyword searches within respective .MES
        files. It comprises an accumulating subject list for each month
        indicating, in which 4UW_xxx archive you may expect to find a
        certain item. INDEX97.SUB covers last year's subjects.

        Josef ·Underwear· Braun