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From: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Just how useful is crossposting?
Message-ID: <7719@xenna.Xylogics.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 18:45:51 GMT
References: <47326@looking.on.ca> <1604@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <48886@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso)
Organization: Xylogics, Inc., Burlington MA
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In article <48886@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes
about a news implementation where articles are left in the batches, and
instead an index file is used to access them.  He goes on to say:

> But you break all existing readers.

Actually, you only break those readers which have, hardcoded into them,
the storage scheme for some existing news implementations.  Readers using
NNTP wouldn't have this problem.  (You'd just have to fix the NNTP server).

John
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