From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42587 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: db-backed mail back end Date: 25 Jan 2002 06:37:28 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87g04x7w4q.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87k7u9g58t.fsf@mendel.genehack.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177808 12628 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 23600 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 14:39:15 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 14:39:15 -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 16U7UN-0002DP-00; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:37:59 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:37:56 -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 IAA23106 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:37:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23590 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2002 14:37:41 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23585 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2002 14:37:40 -0000 Original-Received: from halfdome.holdit.com (merlyn@209.102.105.64) by gnus.org with SMTP; 25 Jan 2002 14:37:40 -0000 Original-Received: (from merlyn@localhost) by halfdome.holdit.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA08652; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:37:29 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42587 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42587 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> jacobs@genehack.org (John S. J. Anderson) 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. :-) >> >> I offer a semi-serious answer to your joking question, not because I >> think it needs one, but because I'd really like to see this happen and >> I don't have the skills to do it myself[1]. 8^)= Lars> I'm serious as mud. :-) Heh. I was just about to unmark my !-marked article from this list from nov 1999 about this very subject. Irony of that. Maybe it'll finally happen. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!