Russ Cox wrote:
i think that in the mime and huge mail box world, splitting mail out into one message per file with attachments as separate files themselves actually makes a lot of sense. it's easier on the dump, it's easier for the programmer, it's easier on the users, etc. best of all, mime becomes a wire format instead of a storage format. users needn't ever worry about it.
yeah but we've come full circle to mh. see: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mh/
and it all seems so nice, and it is so elegant in so many ways, and it is all so horribly slow and painful to use. I gave up on mh some time ago (let's not talk about it, eh?) because, while I liked the idea, it just did not work out at all well in practice.
but mh at the start was simple, then got feature creep. Wonder if you could keep the same idea, but not make it a dog this time around? Or maybe the machines are so fast now, that mh-like system would feel fast? It might be worth a look!
ron
