Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 18:04:49 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>, marcs@znep.com, jfieber@indiana.edu, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list archives Message-ID: <12050.851306689@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Dec 1996 16:42:35 PST." <199612230042.QAA23169@root.com>
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> This isn't any improvement, IMO. The files would still be way-too-large > for people to deal with and it doesn't make it any easier to index the > contents. One message per file is the only scheme that addresses these > problems. Except then we'll almost certainly run out of inodes in the target directory sooner rather than later. Just judging by the mailstats output and calculating about 90 days ahead, the math does not look promising. :-) Sigh. Face it, we need a database. :-) Jordan
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