Sunday, January 09, 2000, 4:24:45 PM, George wrote:
> No but it is better approach to news reading. Forte's aproach is completely
> wrong, news are not supposed to be grouped in a gigantic file, rather in
> separate files. In the other hand, Unix doesn't have fragmentation problems
> :))). Newsgroup are something completely different from mailing lists
> allthough they look alike.
Again, I stress that what you're calling "news approach" is nothing more
than one *server's* approach to the problem.
> By the way, if Rit wish to create a newsreader it should consider to
> implement a scoring system. News without scoring is like browser without
> jpeg. You can live with it but your life won't be any easy :)
Bingo! Scoring is just one example of how the two, while technically
near twins are handled differently at the user level.
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