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[John Arbash Meinel]

James Westby wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:46 +0000, James Westby wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Would it be possible to switch the mailing list
>> archives at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/
>> to be monthly rather than quarterly? I fear that
>> opening monthly archives may be overly taxing
>> on people's computers.
> 
> "opening quarterly archives" of course.
> 
> Although I think that monthly archives may still be
> quite taxing.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James

Well, we probably get around 1k emails per month. I have a single archive folder 
which goes back to 2005-05 which has about 37k emails in it (34 months, 37k 
emails). And while I certainly don't make it my default Bazaar email folder it 
doesn't seem to be particularly over-taxing on my PIII-700 server.

Or are you saying that opening a web-page with 4k lines in it is being too 
aggressive? I suppose the thread page does take a little while to load.

I know the reason we use quarterly is to preserve threads. If only we could get 
Mailman to continue threads across archives. (Are you listening Barry?)

John
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