Re: Yarn 0.90 with Stacker ?

Cynthia Bonk Bonk Bonk Patience Bonk Bonk (who.am.i@io.org)
Tue, 21 May 1996 23:46:17 -0400

Thu, 16 May 1996 15:50:05 +0300, kimju@kontu.bbs.fi (Kimmo Jukarainen) wrote:
>Now, I'd like to know if I can upgrade to 0.90 and still use Stacker?

Don't see why not? Though if you are on very limited disk space more of a
consideration than to-stac-or-not-to-stac would be the new news spool
handling vs. old news spool handling. You may see your spool grow somewhat
bigger with the new format; especially depending on how often you expire.
However if you expire often regularly, and aquire aproximately the same
amount of news regularly it probably shouldn't be a problem.

It might be a problem if you import an extra lot of news one day, because
it takes a while (depending on your expirey dates and how often you expire)
for the news dat to shrink back to "stable" size-- you can't *immediately*
reclaim space when expiring like with the .89 format.

Confused yet?

Here's an idea... set up Yarn 90 in a new directory as a temporary thing to
test it out if you feel like taking the trouble. Set it up to import one or
two newsgroups just to see how it goes...

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