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(...) Agreed. My words above related to the proposal store info about who's *read* each message, not about who's *rated* them. (...) Also agreed. Is there a good reason for Lugnet to spend a (potentially) large amount of disk space to store this (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ross Crawford writes: <snip> I think I've shown already where Todd said that the code change would not be "large" to do this. (but *any* code change is large, some just are larger). The data structure already exists. (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I didn't mention code change size. (...) I *did* read the posts around both those refs, and found nothing about the data structure (for marking posts as read) already existing. Maybe you could point me to it? (...) Well another minus is that (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) In fact, it appears I've changed my mind yet again (URL) 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) It's the same data structure (or could be) as the rating data structure, that's the point. (...) It's an inference from this: (...) IOW, there is a data structure of some sort (doesn't matter what, sparse array, pointers off the articles, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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