Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 16:47:48 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, terry@lambert.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP* Message-ID: <199704252347.QAA10509@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:30:15 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970425082149.10134M-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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Actually, Terry has an army of hackers at the other end all using his name 8) Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of John Fieber : > On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, John Polstra wrote: > > > In article <199704222220.PAA27567@phaeton.artisoft.com>, > > Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > > > > > in it. See the cvsup manpage section on refuse files. > > > > > > > > Well, the man page is not bvery useful, > > > > It's true, the section on the refuse files needs some fleshing out > > and some examples. But hey, given that you're the guy who can > > churn out thousands of words a day here in these lists, why don't > > you write something up and send it to me? ;-) > > Just as a small footnote, last time I re-indexed the > freebsd-hackers mailing list, "terry" and "lambert" gained > stopword status. > > [For people not familiar with text databases, that means the word > occurs so frequently it ceases to be useful in a query to > discriminate between documents. Now, I should also qualify that > the automatic stopword handling in freewais-sf is bogus because > when something becomes a stopword should be keyed to the total > number of documents in the databes, but freewais-sf had a > hardwired threshold of 20,000 occurances. I have since boosted > that limit to a more reasonable level for the size of the mailing > list so Terry is no longer a stopword. But still, 20,000 > occurances in the hackers list alone is an accomplishment!] > > -john >
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