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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Jamie's Junker -- All the News that Fits
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Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 11:58:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 20 11:58:15 1986
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In article <282@ubc-cs.UUCP> andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews) writes:
>     I just posted to net.sources a shar package for the Junker program,
>described earlier on net.news.group.  If you haven't heard of this
>before, it's a program which "junks" certain specified newsgroups
>by slicing out the middles of large articles until the total size
>of articles is below a certain specified limit.  

Actually, I originally thought that this idea was kind of a joke and
never gave it much notice.  Reminds me of something I put in a
message-of-the-day file when I was a system manager a number of years
ago. I was something about trying to free-up some disk space by
utilizing the Hoffman Prime Number Block Algorithm (or some such
nonsense) which would free up all data blocks in files which had a
prime number, thus freeing up some much needed space.  One person
called to ask for an explanation.

It was, of course, April 1st.
-- 
Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center
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