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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] acme: some thoughts about design
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 00:48:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <018b01c445cf$17086730$347e7d50@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040529165834.GA16038@mithrandi.za.net>

> A 2-dimensional hierarchy is hopelessly inadequate for storing
> information in a "natural" way.

nonsense.

> really has 1 or 2

run du -a lately?

> It may be a great low-level implementation, but being
> able to say "find the e-mail I wrote to Timothy last week" is a lot more
> useful to the user.

really?  mbox/Timothy/* or mbox/Timothy/YYYY/MMDD/*



  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-29 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-29 16:51 Tiit Lankots
2004-05-29 16:58 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 17:34   ` dvd
2004-05-30  3:49     ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-29 22:48   ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2004-05-29 23:56     ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 23:54       ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-29 23:59       ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-30  0:51         ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-30  3:40           ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-31  9:19           ` a
2004-05-31 10:17             ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-30 18:09         ` Bruce Ellis
2004-05-29 17:40 ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 22:43 ` boyd, rounin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-31  5:46 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-05-31 21:03 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-05-29 17:58 Tiit Lankots
2004-05-29  9:28 Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 14:48 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-29 16:18   ` Matthias Teege
2004-05-29 18:31     ` 9nut

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