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From: rick@pavlov.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)
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Subject: Re: comp.datasets Call For Discussion
Summary: Volume and a different approach
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Date: 15 Jan 89 22:09:53 GMT
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The idea of making datasets available to people is a good one. However, to
actually post the dataset as news is a bad idea. Most of this data would be of
interest only to a small minority of users. A better apporach would be to
handle it like comp.archives in which articles could be posted as to the
existence of datasets along with instructions as to how to retrieve the data,
them those users who need a particular dataset could retrieve it and we would
not have to ship the data all over.



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