On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:17:15PM +0100, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2006-03-02 at 17:17 -0800, Brendan Cully wrote:
> > I expect that is indeed the reason. It's probably harmless to bump it
> > up to a regular int. But maybe in the meantime you should read some of
> > your mail ;)
>
> Heh.
>
> But again, this is a different usage model, the one I mentioned before:
> shared IMAP folders.
There's no reason not to fix this, and what follows in no way
constitutes an argument against fixing this. That said, I'm
curious...
Ignoring the issue of storing duplicate messages taking up extra
space, how is sharing IMAP folders better than simply creating mailing
lists and putting the right people on the right lists? I can't see
any practical benefit to it... If your job is e-mail driven, it's
crucial to be able to manage your mail in a way which is efficient for
you -- ESPECIALLY if you receive hundreds of e-mail messages per day
(like most system admin types I've met)... Having mailing lists seems
to allow for much greater flexibility in how each person handles (or
ignores) the mail that they have access to.
- You never have to worry that one user accidentally deletes a
message before everyone else has had a chance to see it.
- If a particular user doesn't need to see mail on a particular
list, they can just unsubscribe from it.
- If a particular user doesn't need to see mail on a particular list
TODAY, they can just delete it all to get it out of their way
without affecting everyone else.
- Users can organize their mail into folders using methods that make
the most sense for they way they work individually, rather than
being forced to live with the group-defined organization.
- If a user DOES accidentally delete a mail, there should be plenty
of other people who have a copy of it, and can forward the message
to the user who goofed.
- You don't have the problem of having 50,000 messages lying around
that no one cares about, just because someone MIGHT care about
them (but probably won't).
Except for the space issue, which should be a non-issue if you're an
ISP (cuz you need lots of space for storing user mail anyway), I can't
see a single benefit to sharing folders. I'm curious if you have
found any.
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Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
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