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From: king@kestrel.UUCP
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Subject: Re: reorganization of soapbox newsgroups
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Date: Wed, 28-May-86 18:54:43 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 28 18:54:43 1986
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   From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
   Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.abortion,net.misc,net.motss,net.philosophy,net.politics
   Date: 27 May 86 23:47:31 GMT
   Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)

   In article <8433@kestrel.ARPA> king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) writes:
   >  (I suggested an abbreviation for partial inclusions of msgs
	being replied to)
   >

	   The main problem with this is also the main reason for
   inclusions in the first place. It is called *expiration* of articles.
   By the time a reply gets back to my site from the other end of the net
   3-4 weeks after the original article, the original is *long* since
   expired and gone! How then is the inclusion mechanism going to *find*
   the article, given that it has been deleted!

The problem we are trying to solve here is traffic volume, not site
disk space.  If we incorporated inclusions by reference, and we
compressed files older than two weeks, messages might be allowed to
live for four weeks instead of the more normal two.

   -- 

				   Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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-dick