Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!berger
From: berger@datacube.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.notes
Subject: Re: Evolutionary dead end?
Message-ID: <107300004@datacube>
Date: 3 Jan 88 18:56:00 GMT
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Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!berger    Jan  3 13:56:00 1988


I'm glad to see a little life in this group! 

My feeling is that we live in a world of compromise. The news format
may not be the most efficient in some regards, yet it is the most
widely available format and is amazingly standard in a world lacking
in standards. 

Yet I like the notes interface and many of the features and I miss
many of the automatic features and compatability with news.

Wishfully thinking (wishfull cause I don't have the time to work on
this myself and I appreciate the time that people do put in), I wish
that there could be a package that could sit on top of news and give
me the best of both worlds. I'm willing to put up with some sacrafice
in performance or machine cycles. Especially if that sacrafice is in
the batch process at nite.

One possiblity would be to use the news database as the baseline and
then add an additional database of indexes and such to support the
notes interface. The bulk of machine cycles to manage these databases could be
spent at the time of news reception / transmission and nitely / weekly
archive times.

				Bob Berger 

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