Sherman, I think I have to agree with Eric's terse* reply.
[ Courtesy of Entourage/Encarta...
terse adj
1. brief and unfriendly, often conveying annoyance
2. concise and economically phrased
]
Your original reply wasn't a reply at all.
Eric wrote about a 2 hour search.
> I just tried a search of the contents of my mail for a message I send several
> months ago. Currently, I have about 5000 messages without attachments stored,
> and was searching for a single, 18 letter (English) word. The search took
> almost 2 hours to complete on a 500MHz system! That is incredibly bad what
> is the problem? Isn¹t searching done with a DFA?
>
> Eric Hildum
You said:
> Why don't you archive your email to a database? There are some good
> solutions for this, and it gives two advantages: (1) better/faster
> searching, and (perhaps more important), (2) it keeps your Entourage db
> lean.
Then I said:
> Sherman,
> Clearly a 2 hour search is a problem.
> Equally clearly, an archiving scheme suggestion was not quite the point that
> Eric was making.
Since we seem to be picking lately, this is (has become) a general problem
that I observe on this list.
I don't even know if the topic is applicable anymore.
Paul said, a few days ago, ~I'm just going to stop offering suggestions
anymore. ~
Maybe he had a good suggestion.
Here's mine:
Before replying (me included), ask yourself if you are offering a suggestion
that addresses the posters problem, OR a relevant comment about the
Entourage application and its use/extension/etc.
I am not the list mom, so I don't know the exact wording of what this list's
purpose is, but I strongly feel like the past couple weeks have NOT been
exactly it.
Ho hum.
And it's all good, I guess. (Even if a little boring and off topic lately.)
My $.02.
-- Gary
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