Re: Archive Any And All Text Usenet

Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

The idea is that each "message", "post", has an ID,

  Special file systems for news storage, such as the
  Cyclical News Filesystem (CNFS), have been developed.

  But, as mentioned by immibis, SQL databases can be
  very efficient today when used by someone with an
  education in relational databases.

  For example, I have a filesystem here that sometimes
  starts to behave strangely or become slow once there
  are several 10,000 files in a single directory. Or,
  maybe it's just the user interface not the file system.
  But you should make some tests to see whether the fs
  can actually support your requirements.