On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:51:38 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
> Sorry, Sam, I didn't mean to give offence. > Unfortunately I get very uptight and righteous about people doing > the things I wish I could stop myself from doing <G> No offense taken. Apology accepted. >> I once had three thousand messages in my Pine inbox and it didn't >> slow things down at all. > Yikes! Did you ever get around to reading them all? Yes, I read them as they arrived and then left them in the inbox. I used the Pine inbox as an archive. As Pine took me automatically to the first new message without any noticeable slowdown in performance this caused no problem whatsoever. Every few months I would throw stuff out. Then my ISP canceled all the shell accounts and I started using Arachne for my email. I found I had to change my habits! For other reasons my email needs have changed, so it's not a problem anymore. But it would be if I got involved in high volume emailing again. At one point I was on three lists and each got forty or fifty emails a day. If I went away for long weekend I could come back to four or five hundred messages and if the download got jammed halfway through I'd have even more. Sam Ewalt Croswell, Michigan, USA -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
