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Re: Ebay auction Group
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:57:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> One thing to think about, I have noticed that access to the Lugnet groups is
> getting slower and slower, especially at home with Outlook Express.
> This is because the entire news history is kept in the newsgroup.
Hmm, that sounds like a client newsreader bug. It shouldn't be any slower
with a well-written newsreader, whether there are 100 messages or 100,000
messages.
> Hmm... here's a
> thought, how technically difficult would it be to provide a news shadow
> which would only maintain one weeks worth of posts?
Well, at some point, I'll have to start archiving the old messages out of
the NNTP-visible area, but they'll always be fully available of course via
the HTTP-visible area (the web interface).
Having 15,000 messages all avaliable at once in lugnet.general, for example,
isn't a problem for a well-written newsreader, but it sounds like there are
some broken programs out there. It should probably be whittled down to the
most recent 1000 or 2000 messages in each group -- or something like that.
> I'd also love to see
> posts be autoedited to have the URL of the post at the end or top or
> something so that I could easily bookmark the post rather than marking it
> unread because it has useful permanent information.
BTW, if you happen to get the news by mail, there's a header in each message
which contains a URL.
> Actually what could be
> even more interesting is if there was some way to tell the newsserver how
> many days of posts you wanted it to present to you (perhaps by offering a
> sequence of alternate news ports which coded the number of days or something
> bizarre like that, I guess another possibility for members would be some way
> to configure Lugnet).
Don't all client newsreaders have this option? Just tell it to delete/purge
anything older than N days -- it's usually configurable on a per-group basis
too.
> I keep thinking about writing my own newsreader for Lugnet which would take
> advantage of some of what is known about the Lugnet news server. It could
> easily allow creation of bookmarks to posts for example. I'd also like an
> ability to mark a post and have that mark be kept track of, but have a
> choice of showing marked posts or not. I'd also like an ability to show me
> how many new posts since the last time I read the newsgroup, not just the
> total number unread.
Sounds like you need Agent or Gravity!
--Todd
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| (...) Whether its a bug or not, it is happening. I am having the same problem with Communicator 4.5. I think someone said that it was unchanged in 4.7. The group with the most posts (.general) is the one where I have been most affected. (...) They (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Ebay auction Group
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) is (...) Well, part of the problem may be the way I have it configured. OE caches headers, which in general is REAL NICE, but does mean that it takes some time to get into a newsgroup, even if there are just a (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| The reason I'd like to see a separate eBay group is that I am potentially interested in seeing eBay posts, so I don't want a filter which automatically chucks them, but I want to have them sort of all in one place so I can ignore them, except when (...) (27 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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