Re: How to subsribe to a general mailing list?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Byung-Hee writes:

> Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

>> Plus: have you looked at the sizes of harddisks these days? You can
>> store a _lot_ of emails in a couple of terabytes.

> Adam, please give me more example. Maybe i need this strategy...

I was just thinking about how small mailing list emails are compared to
how huge harddisks are these days.

My first harddisk was 40 MB, my laptop today has 1.5 TB of SSD. That's
more than 39000x larger. I definitely haven't been writing/receiving
39000x more emails. I have 396K emails in ~/Mail currently - they take
up 11 GB, that's ~a 140th of the available space.

In Feedbase I have 3.3 million articles currently, the PostgreSQL table
takes up around 5.4 GB on disk.

So I wasn't thinking of any specific strategy, storage spaces has just
grown much faster than email size.

PostgreSQL (unsurprisingly) is more efficient than a-file-per-article by
quite a bit, though :-)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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