From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Huge groups
Date: 20 Jan 1998 08:39:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <whk9bvppah.fsf@norne.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jason L Tibbitts III's message of "20 Jan 1998 01:15:07 -0600"
>>>>> Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>:
>>>>> "MS" == Matt Simmons <simmonmt@acm.org> 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.
A faster backend? Are there some formats that could be used? Isn't the
qmail native format supposed to be fast? (at least according to Dan
Bernstein...)
How about whatever the Cyrus IMAP server uses?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-01-20 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-20 4:01 Matt Simmons
1998-01-20 4:19 ` SL Baur
1998-01-20 7:15 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1998-01-20 7:39 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
1998-01-20 9:29 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1998-01-21 14:32 ` Stefan Waldherr
1998-01-21 14:48 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-01-22 10:31 ` jari.aalto
1998-02-08 15:22 ` Re: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-20 10:32 ` Huge groups Jan Vroonhof
1998-01-21 0:58 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1998-01-21 12:59 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-22 11:28 ` Lars Syrstad
1998-01-22 16:38 ` Steinar Bang
1998-01-23 10:38 ` Lars Syrstad
1998-01-23 15:34 ` Steinar Bang
1998-02-08 15:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-22 18:41 ` David Aspinwall
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