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From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <1989Sep1.005346.17308@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
References: <5200@looking.on.ca> <1989Aug30.052459.1166@vicom.com> <1989Aug30.204324.2675@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1989Aug30.225332.18770@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Aug31.174054.15398@paris.ics.uci.edu> <1989Aug31.234545.23296@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 00:53:46 GMT

Everyone who reads a specification must interpret it; the hope is that
the specificition is clear and error-free.  Otherwise there will be
different interpretations of it by well-meaning people.

To avoid transmitting Xref:, the batcher would have to exclude Xref:s
when forming batches.  It could be done at some cost in CPU cycles.
I'll ask Henry when he gets back if he wants to do this.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu