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From: robertv@tekla.UUCP (Robert Vetter)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.abortion,net.misc,net.motss,net.philosophy,net.politics
Subject: Re: reorganization of soapbox newsgroups
Message-ID: <585@tekla.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-May-86 19:03:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 30 19:03:38 1986
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In article <8522@kestrel.ARPA> king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) writes:
>From: 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.
>>		[...]
>
>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.

	Disk space requirements would increase with longer expiration,
	but would decrease greatly if - for instance - the above inclusions
	were limited to 3 internal lines.


Rob Vetter
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