Re: Yarn

From: Dirk A. Loedding (judge@america.net)
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:02:56 -0400

bobr@mcs.com (Robert P. Rush) wrote:

[snip]

>All versions of Yarn that I'm familiar with (since about .57) use
>separate files for each folder. Copying an article to a folder
>physically copies the article from the news.dat file to a file with
>the same name as the folder.

And, that article can be expired from the news.dat, whether or not it's
copied to a folder (as opposed to a pseudo-newsgroup).

>What I think B. Vermo is alluding to is the pseudo newsgroups that
>Yarn uses for mailing lists. In that case, there is no difference in
>Yarn between real newsgroups and pseudo newsgroups used for mailing
>lists.

I believe you are 100% correct, Bob. That makes perfect sense to me,
and matches up with my view of the reality of the situation.

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