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Quoth Nate Williams on Mon, 26 August:
: > What I want is a solution which postpones the writes until hell freezes
: > over.  Or, better yet, doesn't do them at all.
: 
: Use MFS for your news spool partition. :)

Assuming I have a few gig of ram, what about swapping?