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diff --git a/Documentation/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/design_notes.txt index c5d9427b..9ad49774 100644 --- a/Documentation/design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/design_notes.txt @@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ Use existing infrastructure * Existing spam filtering on an SMTP server is also effective on public-inbox. -* readers may continue using use their choice of mail clients and - mailbox formats, only learning a few commands of the ssoma(1) tool - is required. +* Readers may continue using use their choice of NNTP and mail clients. * Atom is a reasonable feed format for casual readers and is supported by a variety of feed readers. @@ -145,19 +143,11 @@ What sucks about public-inbox Scalability notes ----------------- -Even with shallow clone, storing the history of large/busy mailing lists -may place much burden on subscribers and servers. However, having a -single (or few) refs representing the entire history of a list is good -for small lists since it's easier to look up a message by Message-ID, so -we want to avoid splitting refs with independent histories. - -ssoma will likely grow its own built-in ref rotation system based on -message count (not rotating at fixed time intervals). This would -split the histories and require O(n) lookup time based on Message-ID, -where `n' is the number of history splits. +See the public-inbox-v2-format(5) manpage for all the scalability +problems solved. Copyright --------- -Copyright 2013-2018 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org> +Copyright 2013-2019 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org> License: AGPL-3.0+ <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt> |