On 10/27/06 at 2:23 PM, Michael Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>Well, as an "archivist," this affects me very little.
>
>I am curious how many people are getting near the 2GB limit in just one
>year, though. I can see that being an issue. For others, do you really
>access email older than one year (or within the current fiscal year)
>more than once a month? once every other month? Is once a week too often
>to have to open an archive database to do a search when opening the
>database takes only a second or three? I personally can't remember the
>last time I opened up the FMPro archive of my emails from 1998 or so to
>2005 -- so that shows you how often I need those emails I think I need.
>And until version 5, really, searching in PowerMail wasn't as robust as
>my FMPro database anyway.
Just FWIW, I access older mail sometimes, albeit frequently. The issue
is that I don't want to have to search here, then there, then the other
place, etc. If I think "email," that's where I want to look, you know?
>Everyone has different circumstances, obviously, and CTM has to
>determine if someone's special circumstance is widespread enough to
>warrant development expense. Maybe a poll of users done beyond the this
>mail list even would be helpful. (I'm assuming, of course, that the
>majority of users are not subscribed here :) )
I think that's a great idea - those here may not be a representative sampling.
Steve Abrahamson
Ascending Technologies
FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
http://www.asctech.com
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