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Re: Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:29:15 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
Apologies if this has been asked before and I missed it, but is this
available?  It sounds *extremely* useful!

Mine is a horrible hack crufted together to run in text mode with Curses on
my particular home machine,

If you mean that it would be virtually impossible for me to do some hacking of
my own to get it working, or you're embarrassed to share the source, then fine!
Otherwise, I'm still interested :P


but Jeremy Sproat has written a general-purpose
platform-independent newsreader in Java, and I think he might be considering
adding rating capability to it.  (Or was that Dan Boger?)

Yup - these are cool developments, but ideally I want something low overhead -
Linux has started thrashing on my p166 already, and once I start up a few java
instances it crawls even more..

Richard



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  Re: Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
 
(...) It's not particularly bad code or anything like that, it's just that it was an evolve-mode prototype -- didn't know Curses at all before digging in (still don't know it well) and wasn't sure it would even end up working. It also is still using (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  

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  Re: Article rating (was: Re: the latest news)
 
(...) Mine is a horrible hack crufted together to run in text mode with Curses on my particular home machine, but Jeremy Sproat has written a general-purpose platform-independent newsreader in Java, and I think he might be considering adding rating (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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