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From: dhp@ihnp3.UUCP (Douglas H. Price)
Newsgroups: net.news.notes
Subject: notes questions
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 14:09:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  7 14:09:02 1986
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Reply-To: dhp@ihnp3.UUCP (Douglas H. Price)
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Keywords: notes version directory structure

I have just brought notes 1.8 up on a couple of machines, and I have a few
questions for the developers.

1. Is 1.8 the latest release version?

2. Will there be any changes to the directory structure in future releases?
	For instance, tree structuring the directories to permit arbitrary
	length notesfile names?  How about breaking the notes themselves out
	into separate files (like netnews 2.10+) to permit crosslinked files
	for cross-postings.

3. Is anyone going to attempt to beef up the response-recognition algorithm
	pick up articles with matching Re:'s more reliably (or at all).  It
	is annoying to see what is clearly a response  to a previous posting
	getting its own base note.

While I am sure the above suggestions have been hashed out before, I really
think that notes would be much more robust and managable if the notes and
the responses where broken out into separate files.  The ulimit question
also figures here.  I am NOT suggesting doing away with the index files, but
after a crash, it should be simple to write a tool which could derive the
index from the files in the database for that notesfile.



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						Douglas H. Price
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