From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13667 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Huge groups Date: 20 Jan 1998 08:39:33 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.105) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152989 10405 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:29:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:29:49 +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 XAA09407 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:48:02 -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 BAA29393 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:46:05 -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 BAH08665; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:46:04 -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 01:45:40 -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 BAA08644 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:45:29 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 24894 invoked by uid 504); 20 Jan 1998 07:45:29 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24891 invoked from network); 20 Jan 1998 07:45:27 -0000 Original-Received: from abel.metis.no (HELO gw.metis.no) (193.90.64.1) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 20 Jan 1998 07:45:27 -0000 Original-Received: by gw.metis.no (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA11292; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:44:55 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by metis.no (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA11428; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:44:53 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by norne.oslo.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA05215; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:39:35 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Jason L Tibbitts III's message of "20 Jan 1998 01:15:07 -0600" Original-Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.15/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13667 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13667 >>>>> Jason L Tibbitts III : >>>>> "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. 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?