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In article <832864582snz@siberia.demon.co.uk>
           philip@siberia.demon.co.uk "Philip McNab" writes:

> On Thursday, in article <832848018snz@dsl.co.uk>
>      bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" wrote:
> 
> BK> Incidentally, whilst working on the .NRC aspect of SNews, how about
> BK> cutting down its volume drastically?  It would be very easy, surely, to
> BK> reflect the format of the .newsrc of many of the standard Unix readers,
> BK> which don't require every single read article to be listed separately.
> 
> Maybe, but is this change really necessary?  I have some 3000 
> articles in my newsbase, but a .NRC for a new user (i.e. listing all 
> articles in the newsbase) only takes about 8k.  Since the format is 
> easily readable by the program, I think it's worth sticking with; 
> even on my tiny HD, 8k isn't critical.  I can imagine that prune, for 
> example, would have a more difficult job if it had to calculate runs 
> of numbers when modifying the .nrc: much easier to just delete 
> individial numbers.  I'm also happy to know that there's less 
> complicated code to go wrong :)

Well, each of *my* users has a 20kB .nrc file, and that's with only a
score of newsgroups; multiply it up ...

Besides, the code for reading/writing the runs of numbers is well-known,
and has floated around the 'net for a decade or more.

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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
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