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Nov 18 18:29 UTC 2006

My dad (a former staff member) wrote me an email:

> (It's been a few years, but I *think* that the way the part command worked
> in picospan was not by checking whether one had posted, but by scanning
> all users' directories for a participation file for the particular
> conference.
> It was hideously slow, IIRC.  And if the file was in a directory without
> proper permissions, it wouldn't report it.  I could be wrong, but that's
> my memory of how it worked.)