davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (11/20/89)
I have seen several postings lately which refer to the problem of having threads which lack the original article. I have an aide which I would like to implement, but I want to draw on the experience of the net. What I propose is to modify expire to check references and use a longer expire time on articles which are the subject of an xref. What I would like is feedback on (a) has someone done it, (b) does it have any non-obvious drawbacks? I have some tools in place which keep disk space under control, so I won't get in trouble with things staying around too long, although I may lose them if disk gets tight. Please post useful info to help trigger comments for others, and *mail* flames. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (11/21/89)
Well, NOTES kept (keeps) whole discussions in one file, and expires a discussion at a time. Not a bad idea, although some discussions, like the aquaria one, get so huge that you might get a great eater of disk space. And I know Eric said that TMN was going to keep pointers to the CHILDREN in parent articles, in addition to the reverse we already have. All in all this would not be too hard, although you have to change the file format of history to do it. It should have room for some flags. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473