From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2001 - 04:40:30 CST
In <87k7x5s77u.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>When you're running a system with 6 or so gigs of history files and a
>million or so articles per day then you can come back and tell us that
>implementation is not difficult. Until then, the fact that it can be
>made to work on a trivial scale is irrelevent.
I don't think implementation effort is linear in the size of the history
file.
On your argument, one would never implement a new feature in Usenet, Ever.
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