OT: Tiger's Interface Quirks

[Geoff Canyon]

Spotlight doesn't support anything other than files -- it can't  
distinguish between the messages in an mbox file, for example.  
Therefore, in order to have mail messages searchable  
(distinguishable, really) in spotlight, they had to make mail use  
separate files for storage.

Not saying that was a wise decision, just that it wasn't arbitrary.

gc

On May 28, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> As, for that matter, was the other decision in Mail (decidedly NOT  
> toward standards compliance), the elimination of the mbox format  
> for mail. dumb.