[celeste] moving from Communicator to Celeste....
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Nov 1 23:08:51 UTC 2001
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
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