Re: Re: Request for comments: project proposal

Craig Brent Ludington writes:
> This may be veering off-topic, but standard mailbox format isn't
> necessarily a great idea.  At least from the standpoint of parsing
> the contents over and over.  If each mail message is kept in its own
> file, preferably grouped in directories according to some preferred
> arrangement, with, perhaps, symbolic links providing alternate indexing=
,
> the entire mail database can be as stable as the file system it resides=
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> on.
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> It's easy enough to cat all the files together into a single standard
> mailbox format if you decide to go back to that.

You can keep all the meta data you want in application specific way.
That includes index files.  I've no problem with keeping index files
in lisp images...


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