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Subject: Re: Looking to share cost for Mhonarc customisation
From: "Mark J. Bradakis" <mjb @ cs . utah . edu>
Organization: U of U School of Computing
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:32:52 -0700
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
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 >  IME, as long as your archives are *easy* to search, searching
 >  archives takes less bandwidth and gets the visitor the answer
 >  faster, which makes your list more effective

Of course, the more TOFU and deep replies you have, the more disk space,
search engine cycles and bandwidth is wasted sending N uneccessary
copies of search hits which are really all the same.


mjb.
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A good friend will come bail you out of jail...
but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Boy, that was fun!"



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