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[James Westby]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:39 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I don't keep the whole archive locally, so when I want to dig
something up I go to the thread view page of the web archives to find 
it.

It takes almost a minute to load the whole thing, which I think is 
probably bandwidth as I am on a pretty limited connection.

> 
> 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?)

I don't feel that strongly about it, and I didn't know of a reason for 
having it quarterly, so I thought I'd asked.

If people prefer having the threads maintained then I'm ok with that.

Thanks,

James