On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 08:43, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 23:20, 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 > > Why not break the messages up into folders based on the month they were > received? The list appears to get 6000 to 7000 messages a month. > > Or you can use gmane to search the archives. (not as convenient IMHO) > > -- > Scot L. Harris > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > Happiness is twin floppies. Now I mix and match. 1) I save only messages that are useful to me. 2) I put them in folders like applications, system stuff, upgrading, etc. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
