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From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: Any Exmh/nmh buffs in the house?
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 16:17:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1it8e8pyn.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2sn7i4owu.fsf@linux3.maruska.tin.it> (mmc@maruska.dyndns.org's message of "02 Mar 2002 22:53:37 +0100")

mmc@maruska.dyndns.org (Michal Maru¹ka) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> I'm looking for some kind of interface that will be a little more
>> fleetfooted in massive mail/news groups.  In my experience and without
>> major tweaking or the like, I've found gnus to be poorly suited for
>> very large groups.  Even just a few thousand messages (under 4,000)
>
> i think i have got the same problem.  Do you mean you would want to store the
> headers in a (SQL) database and have the ordering(+threading) done by the DB
> backend?

I never really thought about trying something like that.  Sounds like
it would be smart way to go.  But a trifle complicated.

I was just speaking of trying some kind of tool, maybe nmh, that
doesn't try to do so much.  But only in large groups, because most of
the time I want all gnus goodies.



  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-03  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-27  8:26 Harry Putnam
2002-02-27 10:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-02-27 10:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-02-27 15:43   ` Harry Putnam
2002-02-27 17:11     ` David S. Goldberg
2002-02-27 17:11     ` David S. Goldberg
2002-02-27 21:19     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-02-27 21:19     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-02-27 15:43   ` Harry Putnam
2002-03-02 21:53 ` Michal Maruška
2002-03-02 21:53 ` Michal Maruška
2002-03-03  0:17   ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2002-03-03  0:17   ` Harry Putnam
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-27  8:26 Harry Putnam

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