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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New News (not GNU News)
Message-ID: <2205@prune.bbn.com>
Date: 8 Dec 89 14:42:11 GMT
References: <2203@prune.bbn.com> <14863@well.UUCP>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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I said that the news turnover will be a problem.  I wasn't clear about
what I meant because in <14863@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
says that:
>I thought it was more like three megabytes a day now....
>A commercial database such as Sybase ...  has no problem handling data
>rates hundreds of times higher.  The indexing speed (and/or space) is more
>important than the turnover rate.

The problem isn't necessarily with indexing or feeding data into the
system.  The problem is with retrieval and display.  When I come back
to a newsgroup after a couple of days, I don't want to have to rummage
around all those hypertextish links again, just to establish my context.

The hypertext systems I've seen are oriented for the case where all the
data is "old news," and not where some is old and some is new.  I think
THAT is the issue which creates many interesting problems.

Is this a better explanation?
	/r$
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