Re: Daily Spirit-guided health tip for 10/08/08

Don Kirkman <donsno2@xxxxxxxxxxx>

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote in
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About your subject: could we please change to a Monthly Spirit-guided
health tip, or even an Annual Spirit one? These daily bull-etins are
filling up many folks' hard disk space. Maybe, like we do with
backups, you could just post the parts that have changed since your
last post on the subject. Thank you for your consideration.


You're definitely onto something with the diff(1) approach.

Although some compression algorithms, those making use of the
concept "we will now replace N repetitions of exactly the same
information with one instance" might be even better. You could
pretty much reduce all of these to a single page.

But the best approach would be a single script which employs
the cncept "One of those again? PLONK!".


-- cary
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