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Re: Message-ID lengths (was: Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?)
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Date: 
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 20:33:37 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> OK, the script finished running, and the average Message-ID length is
> 29.8346 characters, and the smallest of the set was 19 characters, and the
> largest of the set was 104(!) characters.

Heh. Ok, so it might be reasonable to have something that does a mapping,
for the sake of the poor humans. :)


> Anyway, back to the previous topic, I don't think that figuring out a way to
> virtually coalesce groups in an NNTP hierarchy on the server is the biggest
> fish to fry right now.

Probably not. Just one that happened to intrigue me. And now, it's All
Figured Out in case you want to implement it in the future. :)

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  Re: Message-ID lengths (was: Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?)
 
(...) I'm glad you brought it up, actually, because you pointed out a few things I hadn't considered (such as the fact that splitting a group wouldn't necessarily mean zeroing it out). I racked my brain pretty hard back in May-June last year, (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Message-ID lengths (was: Re: Todd, can we have an Arctic posting group?)  [DAT]
 
(...) Whoops, I forgot to hold off on posting that until my script finished. Those two numbers were just placeholders from memory. OK, the script finished running, and the average Message-ID length is 29.8346 characters, and the smallest of the set (...) (27 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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