>The large flatfile on the other hand... Yeah, I'm trying to encourage
>the next major revision move to individual files for each post. If I
>knew more, or rather, anything really about USEnet post formats on an
>newsserver I'd probably push for something closer to that.

Take a look at /var/spool/news/articles on rei - there are directory trees for the newsgroup hierarchies, and numbered text files in the directories for the posts. So, post #11570 on rec.arts.anime.misc would be /var/spool/news/articles/rec/arts/anime/misc/11570 .

There's also a fragile, easily-corrupted, and utterly critical file called 'active' which keeps track of things for the server. Jer can tell you more about that.

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