[Mailman-Developers] Issues with archiving directory and OS limitations

[John W. Baxter]

On 10/24/05 5:28 PM, "Brad Knowles" <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

> Base-64 would let you get two characters creating no more than
> 4096 hash subdirectories, and you can see the numbers above for the
> likely reduction in the number of grandchild subdirectories/files.

Base 64 isn't a good idea for code which might run on case-insensitive file
systems (eg Cygwin or Mac OS X).  Base 36 would seem safer if this code is
going to go into the official Mailman release sometime (which is probably a
good idea).

  --John