The Thursday 2004-11-25 at 10:01 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Out of curiosity, why do you maintain your own archives? That's a lot of disk space for files that are readily available elsewhere. Easier to search?
I do it, in part, because there are means of searching that are only possible when you have the mail locally. I'm a regular expression freak, and to my knowledge, there are no Web search tools that give you that kind of search capability. With a tool like "mailgrep," you can find things a lot more effectively than you can with simple keyword search.
¡Exactly!
I also do it in part as throw-back to my days of dial-in modems, when retrieving large quantities of data from the 'Net was not so speedy.
¡Right! I'm on dial up, and I pay every minute of the conection. I simply can not browse every time I want to, and not as long as I want.
And I still miss Windows' transparent, file system-based, file compression. I always compressed my mail archives, leaving only those mailboxes currently receiving new posts uncompressed.
Me too. NT has that feature, and ext2 had it "to be added", but it has not been so. When I install 9.2 I'll try something that we comented here about that, a month ago at least. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson