I assume you were taking something less than full feeds, because on a full feed reader server, just keeping up with the inode demands for all the messages was a challenge; grepping would have taken for-fucking-ever.

remember to use `nice` :)

it wouldn't be polite to scan the whole spool, just the groups that might bear results.

kibo was an anomaly

i had a shell on a big server for a while; i fed the hinterlands with selective feeds.