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From: david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re: new survey to supplement arbitron. Please run this program.
Message-ID: <2836@emerald.indetech.uucp>
Date: 22 May 89 01:49:49 GMT
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In article <1735@papaya.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
=(Excuse the light-hearted tone; too many Saturday-morning cartoons...)
= ...
!Fear not, gentle fellows.  How about this?  Use the :F: flag in your news
!sys file to write the article pathnames into a file, then run a small
!script monthly out of cron to invoke inpaths.  Something like this:
! ...
> The only question:  do you have enough space to store the pathnames of
>a months worth of news?
>	/rich $alz
	Who has enough disk space to store a months worth of articles?
And as long as I'm asking, does not having a month's worth lessen
the value of the data Brian is collecting?  I'm lucky to have enough disk
to keep 3 weeks of history file and 2 weeks of most news groups.