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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 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'm pretty sure both Google and DejaNews before them has pondered the
question carefully.

Seriously, I suspect the core functionality would be the plain text
searches, with the more structured queries being second.