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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server?
To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:09:06 -0700 (MST)
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> Terry, what ARE you babbling about?
> 
> We're discussing INN here, not some hypothetical news system.
> 
> INN is particularly good at recovering from a crash, although there are
> a few things on my wish list, but worrying about some mythical "index file"
> is not among them.

I mean "index" in the database sense of the word, not "index" as in a
file name.

Any time you have a list that isn't stored as directory data, you have
an index.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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