In the days of !path email a single file made a lot of sense. It was just much easier. That is defiantly not true today. You have to remember a very famous man once said "who needs more than 640K" and someone once predicted that the world would only need 5 computers. All our good ideas today in 20 or so years will be though of as just plain stupid. On 12/18/2015 06:21 PM, John Sellens wrote:
On Fri, 2015/12/18 03:34:09PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: | On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote: | > Makes you wonder why someone | > thought it was a good idea to just drop all email in to a single file in the | > first place. | | A lot less inodes, and older filesystems didn't like large directories.
And a lot less mail, And messages were much smaller, pre-MIME.
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