-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 15:26, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: >> Dave Sherohman wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". >> Are you confusing the logical level (what the user almost always deals >> with) with the physical level? > > I would instead say that the Netscape/IceDove/Mozilla/SeaMonkey developers > are forcing the end user to deal with the details of the physical layer > rather than allowing users to exist, as they normally do, in the logical > realm. > > Or, to put it another way, users tend to think "I've read my email > messages, so now I'll delete them" rather than "I've read my email > messages, so now I'll make the folder smaller." > >> At the logical level, the messages are already deleted (from the folder). >> There is no way to get them back (from thr folder from which they're >> deleted) going through the tool (Seamonkey). > > If the tool does not provide a means to undelete messages, then I also > find the decision to not make permanent deletion (either when the user > changes folders or exits the program; it doesn't need to be immediate > for reasons which have been repeatedly discussed in this thread already) > a default action to be questionable at best. If you can't undelete it, > then why keep it around?
Speed. Deleting an email from the beginning of a 500MB (or, 10 years ago, 50MB) mbox file can be slow. (Yet another reason why mbox is a poor storage format.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF04I3S9HxQb37XmcRAk6lAKC1YL5kkszBp1S2OuOjv0XRmwO8SwCgy1lW 6U68KaxkbCoi7FvmCh/zl4U= =SOKP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
