Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Compressing the news spool
Message-ID: <1991Jan2.021112.2747@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <NELSON.90Dec31223115@sun.clarkson.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 91 02:11:12 GMT

In article <NELSON.90Dec31223115@sun.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:
>Expire could be a problem.  However, the program that schedules
>increasing levels of compression could also group together only
>articles with identical expire dates.

Unfortunately, this denies the sysadmin the freedom to change expiry policy
to meet space crises, which is important.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
