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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Quantitative Gloom and Doom
Message-ID: <5993@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:59:16 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 17:59:16 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:59:16 EDT
References: <10277@ucbvax.ARPA>, <602@oliveb.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> The second source of error, which is more relevent here, is the counting
> of links.  The storage of news makes use of links to cross post an
> article to more than one news group.  An article may appear in both
> net.flame and net.sources but only one copy is stored.  The du program
> will count each link seperatly...

Any du that does this is broken.  Please note that if it is, it's because
somebody at Berkeley or AT&T or XYZ Vaporboxes Inc. broke it.  The original
Bell Labs du on V7 copes with links properly.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry


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