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From: shor@sphinx.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is the history file really needed anymore?
Message-ID: <1091@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 22:12:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 26 22:12:04 1987
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Reply-To: shor@sphinx.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
Organization: University of Chicago Consternation Center
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Those of us at sites with limited disk, lots of users, and reasons 
for being other than news (though I can't remember what those reasons 
are ... ) find that keeping the history of expired articles around for
several weeks after the article itself has expired is pretty handy.  We
bounce a suprising number of duplicate articles.  I have no idea why
they aren't being caught by upstream sites.  Anyway, I think I would
continue to use the current version of news rather than converting to
one that didn't use a history file.

Perhaps we should be talking about better ways of encoding the same.
information.  My history files (with indices) take up over a half meg
of disk that could otherwise be used by talk.bizarre.
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Melinda Shore                               ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor
University of Chicago Computation Center         shor@sphinx.uchicago.edu