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Re: Ebay auction Group
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:11:38 GMT
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RSANDERS@SVICsaynotospam.NET
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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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.
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.
> > 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.
They *seem* to have this capability, but so far I have not been able to
get the desired result from it.
> > 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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