Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >> An artificial limit does not offer the user a chance to remedy the >> situation himself by freeing up additional memory, so it is the most >> user-unfriendly and thus the worst solution I can think of. > Even with the limits on the number of messages that can be stored, > processed, displayed, and accessed in a mailbox, I do not find Arachne > user-unfriendly. I regard it as user-unfriendly if a program makes me do something that I would not do otherwise because it is awkward. Like keeping emails that belong together in different directories. > When a mailbox becomes too filled up with too many > messages I just archive the old messages simply by zipping them up. > Doing that conserves my disk space. I may unzip and re-open an old > archive at any time I want to look for an old message. Easy. > No problem. Well, I get hundreds of emails that I have to deal with; most of them require my to reply to them. Also, I have to search through my sent mails every now and then, so having them in more directories than absolutely necessary would make things overly complex. I move old mails to separate dirs, but only to sort them by topic. "Zipping up" the mails would only serve to make them less accessible, since disk space is the least I have to worry about. > I would do the same even if I were using a really bad email program such > as Outlook. I don't like to see a mailbox having more than about 500 > messages. It takes too long to page down to a place near the bottom of > the listing. I have my mailboxes set up to sort by delivery date from > oldest to most recent with the older messages being at the top. I like > it that way. Almost all of the messages I am currently dealing with are > near the bottom. There are a few of my old messages that are important > enough to refer to in the future for re-reading and review. I move those > kinds of messages to a separate folder. With Arachne it is very easy to > organize and sort out my email messages. I do not know of any alternative > mailer that is easier to use for that purpose. There are two kinds of typical operations I do on my mail lists; either I look for older posts by hitting F7, or I jump to the end of the list to look at recent posts, which is why I also have set up Arachne to sort them by date. With a limit imposed on the number of mails being displayed and the mails scattered over several directories, this would not work. So I am strongly against imposing any artificial limits just to keep bugs from being triggered. It is the machine that should serve the user, not the other way round. Regards, Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --