Hi Jorge: Just a suggestion. What I do is save only those messages I think will be of use to me in the near future in a separate folder. The rest get tossed. Then, if I can't find womething I need locally, I look in the archive which is always available. The advantage: Doesn't take up as much space on my hard drive. The disadvantage: I have to fire up the browser and search the archive. That's what's great in linux, so many ways to do things! Tom On Wednesday 01 September 2004 20:20, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I subscribed to this list on May,2004. So far, I haven't delete any message > at all because once in a while I perform a search against it whenever I > need to find out about something (rather than going to the redhat archive). > > I use Kmail on a Tualatin 1.4 Ghz, 512 MB and a 7200 RPM IDE disk. I now > have 24,219 messages on the folder. I'm NOW starting to feel it. Although > I was used to the 6-8 seconds it took Kmail to load...now when I click on > the Fedora-list folder, it takes about 1.5 seconds before it shows me a > message at all. > > What do you recommend me? > > Should I: > > 1> Buy a 10K RPM SCSI hard-disk? (would I notice a big improvement?) > 2> Switch to maildir format? > 3> Delete old msg's and get the habit of using redhat archive? > > Comments are welcome! > > Jorge -- Tom Taylor registered linux user #263467 "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful - and so are we," "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people - and neither do we." - George W. Bush, Aug 2004
