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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: What's the deal with cc? *CRAP*
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <199704222220.PAA27567@phaeton.artisoft.com>,
> Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
> > > > in it. See the cvsup manpage section on refuse files.
> > > 
> > > Well, the man page is not bvery useful,
> 
> It's true, the section on the refuse files needs some fleshing out
> and some examples.  But hey, given that you're the guy who can
> churn out thousands of words a day here in these lists, why don't
> you write something up and send it to me? ;-)

Just as a small footnote, last time I re-indexed the
freebsd-hackers mailing list, "terry" and "lambert" gained
stopword status.

[For people not familiar with text databases, that means the word
occurs so frequently it ceases to be useful in a query to
discriminate between documents.  Now, I should also qualify that
the automatic stopword handling in freewais-sf is bogus because
when something becomes a stopword should be keyed to the total
number of documents in the databes, but freewais-sf had a
hardwired threshold of 20,000 occurances.  I have since boosted
that limit to a more reasonable level for the size of the mailing
list so Terry is no longer a stopword.  But still, 20,000
occurances in the hackers list alone is an accomplishment!]

-john