From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40735 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: request for ideas: organizing old email in gnus? Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 10:32:11 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176239 2491 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:57:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:57:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26216 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 16:34:47 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 16:34:47 -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 16BeyH-0005s6-00; Wed, 05 Dec 2001 10:32:33 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 05 Dec 2001 10:32:20 -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 KAA05083 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:32:07 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 26186 invoked by alias); 5 Dec 2001 16:32:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26181 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2001 16:32:15 -0000 Original-Received: from wri-dns0.wolfram.com (HELO wolfram.com) (140.177.205.10) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 2001 16:32:15 -0000 Original-Received: from g.wolfram.com (billwpc.wolfram.com [140.177.4.89]) by wolfram.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fB5GWDE10577 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:32:13 -0600 Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by g.wolfram.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id KAA12122; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:32:12 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: g.wolfram.com: billw set sender to billw@wolfram.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: #t7>yWrgv~u6*cn3(6X"z={I/l%nH{(W:#WS-kA|s(Kcu`,=9qGWth&; @\^1U5s"'~/hhBr)ZU0<$?W:C33QJ}$t)m`&?8POaq*>5@/7xEPo!>gb;9Z[x)n%:yE#{A)6rNV_Ow ;vCO&LS=@3c=j'6@^T#Mic6zfW|Ehj0~2;jG9Df+DK'h`bTj>XsArg2CH`jW whq]J?SsvWnqa,{.C\,j]u*L:z6/2am5n5Q~6vC0fKPAMa7?Y6:eC.ThbVX X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Wednesday of the First Week of Advent Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-WRIEnvfrom: X-WRIEnvto: Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40735 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40735 Come 2002, I'm going to organize all of my ancient pre-gnus email and all of my pre-2002 gnus email into one gnus tree, and index it all for searching with nnir. Then I'll make the jump to hyperspace and start a new, better-organized gnus tree with daily syncing between work and home and daily indexing. I'm toying with ideas about how to organize all the old stuff. Has anyone else done something like this, and how did you organize it? For example, would you respool into groups containing thousands of emails, or into smaller monthly or yearly groups, such as ding-1998-03 for ding messages from March 1998? I'm leaning toward the latter since summary generation would be faster in case I needed to browse the group, but threading might get messy/b0rken. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide - bw -- Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw "No ma'am, we're musicians."