Xref: utzoo news.admin:12442 news.software.b:6979 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Old news is coming in fast. Message-ID: <1991Feb27.222341.12417@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1991Feb27.193118.22487@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 22:23:41 GMT In article emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: >I would recommend strongly that the next C news patch have an >(optional) means of discarding news that is too old. If I recall the >"news need not be slow" paper, this function was in an early version >of C news, but was discarded for performance reasons. No, it's never been in C News that I recall. It is clearly necessary, and is in the works, although it may not make it into the next patch (which is imminent). Simply keeping a bit more history does noticeably reduce the problem, and may be useful as a stopgap. We haven't seen much old news here. -- "But this *is* the simplified version | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology for the general public." -S. Harris | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry