From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13666 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason L Tibbitts III Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Huge groups Date: 20 Jan 1998 01:15:07 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.100) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152988 10404 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:29:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:29:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09101 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:18:36 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA29273 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:16:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAH08307; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:16:38 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:15:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA08293 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:15:15 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 24685 invoked by uid 504); 20 Jan 1998 07:15:10 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24682 invoked from network); 20 Jan 1998 07:15:10 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (tibbs@129.7.3.5) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 1998 07:15:10 -0000 Original-Received: (from tibbs@localhost) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA08288; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:15:08 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Matt Simmons's message of 19 Jan 1998 20:01:56 -0800 Original-Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.46/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13666 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13666 >>>>> "MS" == Matt Simmons writes: MS> What are people doing with huge groups? Note that the list archive has a 3.5MB overview file and has 15787 messages in it (not including this one). I don't think anyone's foolish enough to try and open it (C-u G A, I think) but if they did they'd be watching the FTP clicker counting up for quite a while. A long time ago we talked about a backend like nnml but with subdirectories holding chunks of messages. It never got off the ground. - J<