On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:26:55PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Derek D. Martin, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Um... Oh, are you European? I seem to recall that Europeans switch
> the meaning of '.' and ',' in numbers, as compared to us US types...
> So perhaps you meant eighty-four thousand five hundred thirty-three
> messages?
>
> In which case I would ask, dude, why? I thought my counterpart at
> work was a pack rat... ;-)
Hmmm....
Well, my current archives have... *does some quick scripting*
(ttyp4):{920}% cat temp | dc
817181
So not quite a million messages, but still far more inodes than I'd care
to eat on /home.
I rotate my folders manually every few weeks; generally, once a mailbox
(in Maildir, being an active mailbox) reached 4000-7000 messages, and
starts taking more than 6 or 7 seconds to open, I tag-all and drop it
into a mbox, then slot that mbox into my archives.
So, does that make ME a packrat? ;)
For reference:
(ttyp4):{921}% du -sh .
2.5G .
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