From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42451 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henrik Enberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: db-backed mail back end Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:49:38 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871yghnb6l.fsf@enberg.org> References: <87g04x7w4q.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177686 11450 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:21:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 2829 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2002 00:50:50 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 23 Jan 2002 00:50:50 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16TBc7-00010i-00; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:50:07 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:50:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA07188 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:49:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 2790 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2002 00:49:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 2785 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2002 00:49:49 -0000 Original-Received: from maila.telia.com (194.22.194.231) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Jan 2002 00:49:49 -0000 Original-Received: from d1o1112.telia.com (d1o1112.telia.com [213.67.192.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0N0nkD14766 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:49:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from rocksteady (h199n2fls32o1112.telia.com [213.65.65.199]) by d1o1112.telia.com (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g0N0nkB04885 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:49:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from henrik by rocksteady with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16TBbj-0000ca-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:49:43 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:36:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 17 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42451 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42451 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > If we were to design a mail back end that's supposed to scale to > several hundred thousands of messages in thousands of groups -- how > would we do that? Perhaps somebody has pondered this question > before. :-) Virtual subgroups. Suppose I have foo with 10000 messages in it then I could create the virtual groups foo1 with messages 0 - 1000, foo2 with 1001 - 2000 and so on (with ^ being able to find parents in other subgroups). Henrik -- There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me. -- George W. Bush