[Gllug] Mailbox compacting

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:

> On 30 Mar 2007, Rich Walker spake thusly:
>> Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
>>> On 29 Mar 2007, Rich Walker verbalised:
>>>> I *like* RMAIL.
>>>
>>> It's so damn minimalist it might as well be vi!
>>
>> Which is why I read it through GNUS these days :->
>
> GNUS hasn't been maintained since 1993 or thereabouts. You probably mean
> its descendant/rewrite, Gnus :)

Whoops. Yes, I'm guessing it's that version. 


>> (Once my laptop CPU finally broke 800MHz, it was worth the overhead...)
>
> I first used Gnus on a 486 with 8Mb of RAM (7Mb post-kernel-boot).
> It was... not fast at constructing summary buffers.

I was using RMAIL on a 12Mb 486, and that was moderately painful...


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