So last week I went over to Apple Discussions, and on the theory that with the release of 10.4 there would be a lot of stuff I’d like to hear about, I subscribed to the entire Tiger discussion area for email distribution.

All of my list mail gets filed away for me, so I don’t necessarily know what’s coming in. I did note an uptick in incoming email, but hadn’t noted how much.

Result: 4 days, 8,408 messages. About 33 megs on my HD. Whew.

There’s simply no way in heck I’d actually read this much traffic; I was already swamped to begin with. So the question is whether I want to keep this around for offline archive purposes, which can be extremely useful at times. The second question is whether I trust Mail 2.0 to handle a folder of 500,000 messages, which this one will have in the none-too-distant future.