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Adrian Howard:

>> Database, not flat-file based
> 
> Why?

The volume is high and the industry is regulated. The DB allows many
different ways of slicing and dicing posts, backup, search optimization,
logging, admin, etc.
 
> For me web stuff seems broken these days unless it has RSS/Atom
> syndication feeds.


While I'm subbed to several hundred RSS sources myself and couldn't live
without them, this will be a problem fairly soon. Both for RSS publishers
(frequency, server load, bandwidth, etc) and users (sheer volume and keeping
up).

Ziya
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