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Subject: Re: We're Going to Give the 36 Hour Default Another Try.

Author: Steven Schwartz

Date: 17:29:09 10/08/98

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On October 08, 1998 at 20:01:47, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On October 08, 1998 at 14:09:09, Steven Schwartz wrote:
>
>>In the hope that CCC does not get taken down again,
>>we are now giving the 36 hour default another shot.
>
>Hallelujia.
>
>>We are also going to gradually stretch the number
>>of days that posts are actively left on CCC before
>>being archived.
>
>Does the typical human ever get into "filter" and have it back up even seven
>days?  When you generate huge hit lists like that the thing goes really slow and
>becomes very difficult to use, so I doubt it matters much.
>
>You won't hear any objection from me if you archive after 7 days, forever.  I
>bet you are getting absolutely clobbered by having all those little files lying
>around for weeks and weeks.
>
>Anyone who wants to go back further than that should be downloading the stuff
>and using "grep", it's way more convenient.
>
>Which is another issue, it might be cool if you guys archived by week, until you
>had a month's worth, then delete the weeklys and produce a monthly.
>
>bruce

I will ask Tim about the practicality of the week/month archiving.
You should take up the importance of the length of "live" threads
with Alessio. That was his peeve.
- Steve



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