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Stored on local machine (Eamonn Sullivan)
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That was the original plan (Daniel M LaLiberte)
Date: 1994, Nov 15
From: Scott Draves

storing ascii responses, even a lot of them, just doesn't take much disk space so it's not hard to store them with the original material. plus since most people don't have a server, you would be really limiting the people who could respond, which is really bad.
because the medium isn't as ephemeral as usenet is, i think the volume of material will be much less, even for the busiest subjects.
i feel the biggest barrier to the use of this kind of system right now is the UI: you can't expect people to do/say much in this horrid motif editor! and integrating tightly with an external editor (ie emacs) will be difficult without changes to the clients, which is hard to spread widely.
if only w3.el were better/faster...

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