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Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:18:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> I thought of doing that, though - what's the differnece between a newsreader
> and my script then? that it works over http and not nntp?
Depends on the newsreader...most newsreaders (that I've ever seen) either
store articles in a proprietary compresses formart or don't store copies at
all. It's also a lot more work on the newsserver if clients are connecting
via NNTP and polling groups with NEWNEWS, compared to simply checking a single
line of text over HTTP.
YMMV -- if you have text access to your newsreader's news article database,
and your newsreader can efficiently download new articles with minimal server
overhead, then that's probably a better route to go.
I made a spooler daemon and a simple Curses-based UI which can launch NN or
my text editor to compse replies -- haven't used a "real" newsreader now in
several weeks.
From a UI-development standpoint, it just worked out much easier (revving the
code) knowing that the article-fetcher daemon was always running and could be
dissociated from the interactive display engine.
--Todd
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