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.