Re: which hash table - chained or open-addressed? - TPA

Flash Gordon wrote:
Richard Bos wrote, On 26/01/07 10:17:
"santosh" <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard Bos wrote:
"Spiros Bousbouras" <spibou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sadly I have no idea how to access this either using
a newsreader or Google.
Then I suggest a rummage through Google's Advanced Group Search. Bad as
Google is for posting and painful as it is for reading, it's still quite
useful for searching for posts.
Bad as it was, it was still usable. The new Groups that Google has
rolled out yesterday, is much worse, nearly unusable now.

I only use the advanced group search, and that works pretty much as it
used to. True, the resulting page is even uglier than before, but as
long as you can search, that's all I want it for anyway.

That's all I use it for as well, and each update I've seen seems to make
it worse than the last. Were it not for disk space requirements and the
resulting cost I would be inclined to set up my own competing free (and
advertising free) service.

Indeed. The developers in Google responsible for Groups must be mad. In
this "new" interface, one has to use both the horizontal and vertical
scrollbars to read any message. The entire right half of the page is
hogged by ads.

IIRC, it's possible to request feeds for only the groups your node
wants to host. That ought to keep disk consumption to a permissible
level. Then again, not all servers provide partial feeds.

Time to get a subscription...

Sponsor that lot of Usenet-vandals? Never.

Santosh did not say how he would get a subscription with. There are
plenty of free or very cheap Usenet providers he could choose from.

I was considering dotsrc.org and aioe.org in the free category and
teranews in the subscription category. The aioe server seems to respond
well, but has a 25 posts per day limit. The registration for dotsrc.org
never seems to succeed. I really don't know much about the pros and
cons of the subscription based services.

Usenet is almost unknown back here, except perhaps in the academia.

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