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To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 12:58:53 -0700
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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> there is an effort underway at this time to split the archives into
> weekly sections (freebsd-questions.19970601, freebsd-questions.19970608,
> etc...).
> 
> this will become the default for all the mailing lists.

I still have to fix my bug, but the smaller file sizes will help.
It has to MD5 each updated file, and that's pretty slow when
the files are > 100 MB.
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
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