From owner-freebsd-database Wed Mar 25 07:25:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23688 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 07:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23676; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 07:25:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA16882; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:25:10 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id QAA05633; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:25:09 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980325162504.05717@follo.net> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:25:04 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: John Fieber , Amancio Hasty Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PORTS] Pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, Update References: <199803250450.UAA27558@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from John Fieber on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 10:06:36AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 10:06:36AM -0500, John Fieber wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > On 25-Mar-98 Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > * Why? > > > Because it's a waste of time. If you want to know what happened > > > before, anyone can go check the mail archives. > > > > We need a decent search engine for the mail archives and possibly also > > provide a threaded list of the archived messages. > > Show me a free mail threader that won't be completely crushed > when you throw 600+ megabytes of mail at it and I'll be most > appreciative. I've actually considered postgres for a thread > index based on message-id, but mail clients are a lot worse, on > average, with proper referencing than news clients so the > threading achieved by this method is little better than sorting > by subject line. www.findmail.com has offered to archive the lists. They have all the databases and stuff needed, and I'd guess they also could take the old message log. They also have a very nice interface to archived mail. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message