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Re: Passing on unwanted groups

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From: Matthias Urlichs
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 12:34
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In news.software.b, article <1990Aug15.152345.13048@fts1.uucp>,
  michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson) writes:
< In article <3939@pkmab.se> ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
< 
<   Better, I think, would be to have another form of 'F' flag ('L' if
< it isn't already taken) where a sub-group of junk-- junk.site
< (or a directory 'junk.site') where a LINK to the articles to be batched
< would be placed. The batcher would unlink() the articles as the are
< batched. 

And if you run the batcher only once a day, then you have these huge
directories with 4000+ files in them -- each of which has to be traversed for
each new incoming article. Imminent death of your ability to process News as
fast as they come in, predicted. :-)

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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
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Date: 18 Aug 90 12:34:39 GMT
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