Where the happy spot is for you is a local decision. I don't like
paged indexes so I don't do those. I break my archives into periods
It seems paged indexes would be more usable than having a 2000
message listing on a single page. Takes awhile to load over slow
connections.
Although I agree that 2000 messages would be pretty unbearable on a
single page, I've recently become a big proponent of mod_gzip on my
Apache server. A file that used to take 60 seconds to load on a
56.6K modem now takes around 7 seconds...
http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/
Now you can push the envelope and have 16,000 messages on a single
page. :)
Chris
