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Article #24474Re: An alternate method of splitting high volume groups
From: Lee Atchison
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1988 21:00
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1988 21:00
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>>Daniel Milliron writes: >>I see one obvious and one subtle disadvantage to the idea of splintering >>newsgroups to atomic levels. The obvious one is the cost of extra disk space >>to store redundant material. The subtle one is that a reader who wants to >>follow all discussions on a general topic (e.g. the Macintosh) will subscribe >>to all the splinter groups and therefore see the same article many times. That > >Currently, rn prevents reading of duplicate material. Ah, but what about those of us that don't have access to 'rn', but use 'notes' instead? We would still have to wade thru mounds of duplicate material. -lee ---- Lee Atchison Hewlett Packard, Information Networks Division atchison%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpesoc1!hpindda!atchison From: atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: An alternate method of splitting high volume groups Message-ID: <6500010@hpindda.HP.COM> Date: 27 Jan 88 21:00:13 GMT References: <22603@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA Lines: 18