20K(+) messages on this Mailing List folder

[jludwig]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 08:43, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 23:20, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I subscribed to this list on May,2004. So far, I haven't delete any message at 
> > all because once in a while I perform a search against it whenever I need to 
> > find out about something (rather than going to the redhat archive). 
> > 
> > I use Kmail on a Tualatin 1.4 Ghz, 512 MB and a 7200 RPM IDE disk. I now have 
> > 24,219 messages on the folder. I'm NOW starting to feel it.  Although I was 
> > used to the 6-8 seconds it took Kmail to load...now when I click on the 
> > Fedora-list folder, it takes about 1.5 seconds before it shows me a message 
> > at all.
> > 
> > What do you recommend me? 
> > 
> > Should I:
> > 
> > 1> Buy a 10K RPM SCSI hard-disk? (would I notice a big improvement?)
> > 2> Switch to maildir format?
> > 3> Delete old msg's and get the habit of using redhat archive?
> > 
> > Comments are welcome!
> > 
> > Jorge
> 
> Why not break the messages up into folders based on the month they were
> received?  The list appears to get 6000 to 7000 messages a month.
> 
> Or you can use gmane to search the archives.  (not as convenient IMHO) 
> 
> -- 
> Scot L. Harris
> webid at cfl.rr.com
> 
> Happiness is twin floppies. 
Now I mix and match.

1) I save only messages that are useful to me.

2) I put them in folders like applications, system stuff, upgrading,
etc.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>