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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: too many new groups (keyword based news)
Message-ID: <2444@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 13:41:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  6 13:41:59 1985
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Summary: 

John's comments are well taken (I won't repeat them here) but look at the
problem with a different solution set than I did. I specifcally looked at
at integrating a keyword scheme into the existing software, he is talking
about a complete rewrite. I'd love to see a complete rewrite because it
would allow us to change a lot of things we didn't know about the first
time around, but I don't know if we can really find the time in a volunteer
effort to do it right.

If you want to look at a complete rewrite of news, I wish you luck-- that's
a LOT of code, and it has to be compatible with the existing news systems
at the transport layer (well, it REALLY doesn't, but you'd get really
lonely if you didn't talk to all those people....). I can usually find time
here and there to fix up parts of the existing software, but knowing the
amount of free time I tend to have, a major development project like that
would take much too long to get any results, which is why I wasn't looking
at it.

chuq
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Chuq Von Rospach, National Semiconductor
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