[MlMt] What takes time at startup?

[Philip Paeps]

On 2016-02-08 11:14:09 (+0100), Vlad Ghitulescu <Vlad at Ghitulescu.de> 
wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2016, at 10:49, Philip Paeps wrote:
>> My archives go back to the mid-nineties.  Since mail (generally) 
>> compresses well and (server) disk space kept getting cheaper, I 
>> decided a very long time ago that it's cheaper to keep everything 
>> than to regularly evaluate what's relevant.
>
> How often do you use / read those mid-nineties email messages now?

Surprisingly often!  Well, maybe not those from the nineties.  But I do 
often need to refer back to old email threads.  Often enough that I find 
it a lot easier to keep them around and easily accessible in my mailbox 
than to try to decide what/when to archive to somewhere less convenient.

> I still have the email messages from 2002, but live doesn't stop :-) 
> so I didn't take a glance of them since ages!

Oh I don't often read old email for fun.  There's plenty of new email to 
keep me occupied.  Sometimes new email will ask me about something I 
worked on ten years ago though.  And my email archive has a much better 
memory than I do.

>> Simple connectivity is one thing, but also finding what I need.
>
> See my previous message: MailSteward or HoudahSpot make that realy 
> easy.

I hadn't heard of these until now.  I'm not terribly enthusiastic about 
spreading my email access across different systems though.  Standardised 
IMAP "just works".  Even if it means dragging a lot of history around 
and stretching client data structures and indices to their limits. :)

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information