Re: Limiting Archive size

[Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu>]

On July 4, 2001 at 21:48, J C Lawrence wrote:

> >From a human usability perspective I've found that 2,000 messages
> per index page is about as high as you want to go.  One of my lists
> has been getting up past 1,800 messages per period, making the
> indexes unwieldy:
> 
>   http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/

MULTIPG.

> There are two concerns:
> 
>   1) Size of the index pages.  

MULTIPG.

>   2) Performance and resource requirements of MHonArc when
>   processing an archive.

MHonArc is not a good citizen when it comes efficiency and system
resource consumption when processing large archives.

> Where the happy spot is for you is a local decision.  I don't like
> paged indexes so I don't do those.  I break my archives into periods

It seems paged indexes would be more usable than having a 2000
message listing on a single page.  Takes awhile to load over slow
connections.

--ewh