tower@mit-prep.ARPA (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (07/09/86)
[ I have heavily used readnews, rnews-mode in GNU Emacs, and notes ]
notes offer several benifits in the way it organizes it's database.
It uses far fewer files/newsgroup. This reduces resource use on a
machine alot:
- fewer file open and closes
- less disc space loss to partially empty last blocks
- less directory searching (particularly each newsgroups directory
fits in a single disc block)
This is attractive to both system administrators and users.
As a user, my preference is notes. The increased responsiveness (from
the data organization on disc), and the indexes with chained
collections of news postings, both combine to let me read the News
quicker and more productively. My major regret is that I have to
handle posting to multiple newsgroups myself, but I find this a small
cost to pay for the added reading speed.
As a member of the USENET community, I look forward to the continued
improvement of the notes software. Particularly fixes to the problems
that so irritate those users who use readnews style interfaces.
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