Jeff, On Thursday 25 November 2004 07:02, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
On Thursday 25 November 2004 09:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Wednesday 2004-11-24 at 16:59 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I keep more that 5 thousand emails on the suse-linux-e folder :-p
I roll over very-high-volume lists such as SuSE-Linux-E to a date-stamped, secondary mail folder every month. In the few months I've subscribed to that list, the average message volume has from 4,000 to 4,500 messages per month.
Right, same here: my archive has around 455 Mbytes, for 2003 and 2004. 2002 I moved out to CD, I think. No wonder my home directory is so big ;-)
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. 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. 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.
Jeff
Randall Schulz