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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New News (not GNU News)
Message-ID: <2203@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 20:32:30 GMT
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I think that one particularly interesting problem about netnews is that it
is such a dynamic database -- a megabyte a day of turnover.  Very few text
retrieval and hypertext systems are cut out for that kind of thing.

"Design first, then write" is nice, but at some point you wanna release
something to users.  Before people got fancy and called it "rapid
prototyping" it used to be called iteration, and it was a cornerstrone of
the techniques used by the first set of Unix authors.
	/r$
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