Tim Rowledge tim@sumeru.stanford.edu wrote:
Another possibility is to make each message a file; my mail system on the Acorn does this. I has costs on some platforms I imagine, most seem to have a minimum file size of some sort so you can waste space easily. With disk prices as they are these days, I don'timagine that is a particularly worrisome mater.
This would be fine for the messages, but not for the *indexes*, I don't think. I'm guessing, for example, that your mail program uses subdirectories to handle separate "folders" ?
Now of course if we had machines able to use the file system we designed at Interval, indexable by content and tags etc, this would all be much simpler. Sigh.
Heh, that sounds pretty neat!
-Lex