Tim Rowledge <tim at 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