Re: request for ideas: organizing old email in gnus?

[raphael.berbain@bigfoot.com (Raphaël Berbain)]

Bill White writes:

> For example, would you respool into groups containing thousands of
> emails, or into smaller monthly or yearly groups, such as ding-1998-03
> for ding messages from March 1998?  I'm leaning toward the latter
> since summary generation would be faster in case I needed to browse
> the group, but threading might get messy/b0rken.

You could have the best of both solutions: Split your mail on a
monthly basis, so groups are small enough to be handled easily.  Use
virtual groups to collect your mail in a big yearly group when you
need to manipulate more than a month at a time.

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Raphaël