Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!fts1!michael
From: michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.060508.11076@fts1.uucp>
Date: 27 Aug 90 06:05:08 GMT
References: <3939@pkmab.se> <1990Aug15.152345.13048@fts1.uucp> <9&c[e2.[51@smurf.sub.org>
Organization: Fountain Technical Services, Ottawa, ON
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In article <9&c[e2.[51@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>< it isn't already taken) where a sub-group of junk-- junk.site
>< (or a directory 'junk.site') where a LINK to the articles to be batched

>And if you run the batcher only once a day, then you have these huge
>directories with 4000+ files in them -- each of which has to be traversed for

  Good point. However, in my case, the groups that I might want to pass on 
without keeping them around longer than necessary would be those nasty
binary groups.  --- low posting rate, but big postings.
  I'm also half thinking of discussions that I was having with another
Amiga person (Gregory Kritsch) concerning news batching. The AmigaDOS
file system tends to have a hashed directory structure (but file systems
are dynamically mountable, so this may not be the case for all file
systems.)

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