From: dwayne (dwayne@morphine.neuron.net)
Date: Sat Jun 30 2001 - 06:18:10 MDT
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, dwayne wrote:
>
> > What about elm?
>
> mutt, rather. I hope I can configure it to use XEmacs. But still, it won't
> handle a million messages. I get about 1 k messages/24 h, that's a million
> in just 3 years. With useful intelligent filtering, I might hit >10 k
> messages/24 h.
Oh wow, I thought I got a lot of messages. I get about half that, and I have never heard
of anyone coming close. Okay, I'm impressed. I'd subscribe to a lot mroe mailing lists
but trawling through the verbiage for useful nuggets takes too long. Intelligent
filtering is extremely attractive, but I'm not too impressed by what i've seen. (Not
that I have taken up extensive study of the issue)
> > i'm in much the same situation, although I haven't gotten around to
> > unarchiving them and putting them in permanent access on a drive on
> > the household network somewhere.
>
> I need to dump them on a large partition, and see whether Python's
> standard modules for email parsing will choke on any of the mailboxes.
> Once I know I can parse them all, I need to start thinking about a
> relational dbase structure, and a full text indexing engine.
Aha, this is cool. I've been thinking about this sort of thing for years, but have
lacked the hardware. I now have, or nearly have, the hardware (fat computers and fatter
drives) and have been thinking about unarchiving my old mail archives (some of the on
QIC-20 tapes, and i've lost the controller card to the tape drive), and then i come
across this thread. :-)
> > Oh hey, I went from cable internet (5 hops from the cable and wireless
> > backbone) to no phone or any other connectivity.
>
> I don't have a phone up either: my ISP is also doing the telephony. DSL
> seems to be cursed worldwide. First you wait, then you try to get your
> line debugged, and then the provider gets out of business.
So it seems. I'm going to sign up again but this time make sure my house has download
limits so a clueless housemate doesn't cost us the link (again)
> I'm thinking about initiating a grassroot (wireless, fiber, copper)
> Ethernet to the home project in the local community.
Aha, we have something similar happening in Melbourne, I'll try to find a url.
aha! And it looks pretty good lately, too :-)
http://melbwireless.dyndns.org/
Dwayne
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