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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

>Perhaps the question should be restated as such:
>
>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.  :-)

(This smells like bait, but I'll rise anyway.)

Something already exists -- a news server.  Tens of thousands of groups:
check.  Millions (or even billions) of messages: check.  Existing Gnus
back-end: check.  Searching and indexing facilities: limited in most
servers, though generally easy to extend externally.


/mark