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Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 03:00:42 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
Breaking that bottleneck has about as much to do with style sheets as
a floormat has to do with salad dressing.

No need to get snippy. We're just trying to help.

We don't have access to the source or even the design documentation so all
we can do is speculate based on what you say, and if our speculation is wide
of the mark, so be it. It's not our fault. (whether it's *appropriate* for
us to have access to the source is an entirely different question, I
continue to lean in the "no it isn't" direction...)

Bet style sheets would cut down the volume of data transmitted (a bit) and
the computational complexity of page generation (a fair bit), nonetheless,
though.

++Lar



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(...) I'm sorry. I know. You're right. It just always happens. Someone says something vague, someone else guesses something about it, someone else adds another guess, someone else adds another guess, and before you know it, everything's way off (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Yikes! Holy speculation, Batman! Thanks, but no thanks! Guys, this is nice and all, but you're guessing way off in left field. On the pages I was talking about, the actual webpage is not held in memory -- ever -- it's written directly to a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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