Re: Old news is coming in fast.

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 22:23

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In article <EMV.91Feb27165108@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>I would recommend strongly that the next C news patch have an
>(optional) means of discarding news that is too old.  If I recall the
>"news need not be slow" paper, this function was in an early version
>of C news, but was discarded for performance reasons.

No, it's never been in C News that I recall.  It is clearly necessary,
and is in the works, although it may not make it into the next patch
(which is imminent).

Simply keeping a bit more history does noticeably reduce the problem,
and may be useful as a stopgap.  We haven't seen much old news here.
-- 
"But this *is* the simplified version   | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
for the general public."     -S. Harris |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Old news is coming in fast.
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