Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: A solution , and a comment Message-ID: <5275@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 2 Feb 90 21:57:23 GMT References: <3013@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> <773@nixpbe.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 10 In article <773@nixpbe.UUCP> mboen@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening) writes: >Then anybody not caring for the discussions could >stop reading comp.os.minix.d I think that would be unwise. You might miss comments like: DON"T RUN TEST20 ON YOUR HARD DISK. IT WILL WIPE IT OUT. The only sane thing to do is read the discussion too, in which case splitting it wins little. The only thing it might do is make it easier to find things. If the volume keeps increasing, at some point we might have to consider something. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)