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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Just how useful is crossposting?
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Date: 17 Nov 89 17:04:08 GMT
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In article <48886@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Well I've been thinking about crossposting because I have been thinking
>about moving net software to other operating systems.
>
>Many other systems don't support links, so if you wish to support
>crossposting you either have to a) waste disk space, or b) use another
>file structure.

Trivially untrue!?... if you're porting News over to some other system
where "real" links aren't supported, just write a one-line file saying
"-> Link to file ABCDEFG.123" and do the "link" yourself.  If this would
waste too much disk space, you can have ONE file of "links" in each
newsgroup storage area, and search that list for "linked" articles.
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Knowing *when* to optimize is just   >>>/     Tom Neff
  as important as knowing *how*.       /<<<   tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET