Re: size of news.dat & yarnpack

From: Hardy Griech (rgriech@ibm.net)
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 20:29:31 +0100

On Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:39:53 -0500, gro.oi@mt (---{Q[7]Qo.) wrote:
:
> messages ID already in the news.dat -- no duplicates allowed... so
> naturally the more messages you have the exponentially longer amount of
> time it will take to import new messages...
:

Should be algorithm dependent...

> btw - after that email i sent to you (why didn't i think of it before?) I
> sent some messages to our local news server with "supersedes:" headers, so
> finally got some Msg ID's in my supersed.pag!
:

You'll get it anyway (cause it is already on the run...)

> And it looks all clear -- there are no offsets stored in there -- so the
> http://www.io.org/~tm/files/yarnpack.exe program should be safe, I think...
> anyhow, it works here. (-: If expire (any options) runs with no errors,
> yarnpack should be safe to run afterwards... no guarenties of course. Heh.

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