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From: kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Dividing comp.sys.att (need new
Summary: Notes with News file structures
Message-ID: <240@stc-auts.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 21:25:21 GMT
References: <2623@pbhyf> <144800010@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Organization: Storage Technology Corp, Louisville, CO
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Posted: Thu Jan 14 14:25:21 1988

In article <144800010@occrsh.ATT.COM>, rjd@occrsh.ATT.COM writes:
> 
> > . . .Are there news systems
> >which use a different naming convention than a.b.c -->.../spool/news/a/b/c?
> >
>   The "notes" system uses the convention:
>  <spool directory>/<complete newsgroup name>/<4 files>
> . . . One advantage of the system
> is that it is less inode-intensive, one disadvantage is the administration of
> the archives.
> 
> Randy

I understand that there are some people out there that are thinking
of trying to do something like the notes user interface (which is
nearly unbeatable) but uses the current news file structure.

The challenges in doing this are in adding index files, possibly
produced by rnews, so that all the articles don't have to be parsed
everytime someone brings up "newsnotes", and fixing "expire" so that
it dosn't delete active discussions.  (or at least the root articles
of the discussions) 

Anyone interested in more details should go look in "news.software.notes"
	(or (in 14 chars or less) "news.software." ;-))
Kris