> I used to keep all my mail this way using MH; it worked well up to > the point where directories got so full that directory operations > were taking too long (I remember a nasty n^2 sort in the early days > of linux). If Plan9's file handling is up to it, I'm in favour of > this approach. Just remember that it has to work well with 10's of > thousands of emails in a directory - search is making organization > obsolete. Heck, some of us didn't manage organization before search > made it obsolete.
Given that the current mbox file format doesn't scale well to tens of thousands of emails, I'm not worried about the fact that the file system doesn't either. Russ
