> From: "Fred Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:42:44 -0500
>
> Without folders and messages in the same folder, folders for folders
> would be normal nodes, folders for messages would be leaves. A
> tremendous gain for file system searches. No wading through piles of
> files [with stat()] to see if there is a directory.
Very valid point, but in designing an email system, which is more
important: implementation efficiency or user intuition and flexibility?
I think as time goes by this scale tips further and further to the latter over
the former.
Chris
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