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  Re: News search function temporarily disabled
 
(...) Splitting the list into a page for each letter (or perhaps groups of 2-4 letters) or country/state would cut the page size down dramatically was my idea. Almost every time I've gone to look at the list, I'm either looking for a specific (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function temporarily disabled
 
(...) It's (currently) a half-gigabyte index that gets indexed in realtime (once per minute). --Todd (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Excessive Cross Posting
 
(...) it does - I think. When you post to .annouce, even from mail or nntp, doesn't it require a followup? if so, adding a few other rules to that check should be quite possible... (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: News search function temporarily disabled
 
(...) I think it's more of a problem of having to have the page in memory (all 300k of it) while a slow client downloads it. Nothing much to do about that except make the page smaller - perhaps move all the FONT FACE entries to an all encompassing (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Excessive Cross Posting
 
(...) I think that's a bit extreme, although what I snipped below is good discussion fodder. I think a number of the recent cross posts have been initiated by people who either are new, or who don't post as often as some of us. An initial cross post (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)


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