risks of reply to button

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
With Mike's permission, I am moving this over to gossip because it is of general interest.. Like everything else, I think this boils down to cost versus benefit. The reply to button in message pages was used 610 times yesterday. I don't know a better way to commiserate with someone whose pet bunny

Re: Improvements

2010-01-31 Thread M.G. Devour
As I'm evaluating things I've just started using the message display interface with this list and there are a couple of things that might make things easier, for me at least... It may be a nightmare to make it work with all e-mail clients and webmail setups, I don't know, but a larger selection of

Re: A few "pre-purchase" questions...

2010-01-31 Thread M. G. Devour
Thank you for the reply, Jeff! You write: > Bring it on. The Mail Archive gets tens of thousands of inbound messages > daily, and currently serves on the order of [100] queries per second. So I > don't think there is any concern about swamping the service given the > numbers mentioned. Doesn't ma

Re: A few "pre-purchase" questions...

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I meant to say "on the order of 100 queries per second" although right now it is less. http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#scale

Re: A few "pre-purchase" questions...

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Bring it on. The Mail Archive gets tens of thousands of inbound messages daily, and currently serves on the order of queries per second. So I don't think there is any concern about swamping the service given the numbers mentioned. Doesn't matter to use how many mbox files are involved for imports.

A few "pre-purchase" questions...

2010-01-31 Thread M. G. Devour
Dear Jeff or Jeff, Sorry about the Subject, I've been used to dealing with folks with a considerably different business model. I do want to be sure I understand a few things before setting up an archive. First off, I have something like 150,000 messages going back over ten years, occupying a