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In article <819560963snz@wash.demon.co.uk>,
          john@wash.demon.co.uk (John Washington) wrote:

> When I first saw the way Snews stores its news files, I
> thought "Ugh, how crude!".  Yet, as time goes by, I find
> it more and more to my taste, and hard to think of a
> scheme I'd prefer for my own use.

Out of interest, how *does* Snews store its news?

> Fair enough.  There've certainly been times when my
> Snews newsbase has taken my disk down to its last
> few meg, so an organisation that doesn't have duplicate
> copies of cross-posts, and compresses the text, has
> undeniable benefits.
> 
> Personally I'm always a little worried about compression,
> the way that, on the rare occasion when it does fail, it
> fails catastrophically.  I'm one of those who's never let
> Stacker/Doublespace/etc near my drives, no matter how much
> the extra room would be welcome.

A system that compresses each article separately, however, is
nearly as robust as one which doesn't compress at all, and
is certainly "sufficiently" robust for news storage. (You're
not going to lose the entire news spool from a single byte's
corruption, just a single article.)

Cheers


Jon
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