From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!malcolm Newsgroups: net.notes Title: Re: Notes Pointers FUBARED - (nf) Article-I.D.: pur-ee.494 Posted: Fri Aug 6 21:01:54 1982 Received: Mon Aug 9 06:33:35 1982 #R:pur-ee:13000005:pur-ee:13000006:000:865 pur-ee!malcolm Aug 6 20:20:00 1982 I was told that the reason to put a number of notes into a single file was that it reduced the time for UUCP (there is a large inter-file time) and the file space (small files are wasteful). Unfortunately, I can't draw any conclusions about the relative file space requirements because of the different ways that beta news and notes expire articles. Likewise for UUCP since I never see the articles. I agree with you Mark....I would much rather pay a penalty in time/space to make it a LOT easier to maintain. I also have been pushing to have the sequencing information moved out of a notes directory and into the users home directory where he can edit/copy/backup the information. I guess the problem is how do you get access to it since notes is set user ID. Malcolm P.S. In spite of its shortcomings I much prefer Notes over the Beta News approach.