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Subject: 
Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:26:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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?

replying to myself (I did decide I need it) - I read lugnet both at work and at
home - I havn't found an easy way to sync the two, so I'm writing my own :)
Thanks for putting out the API that allows me to do it...

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.

yup, similar to what I'm planning.  It might be a good time to learn perl/g?tk
interface...  right now, it's just popping up the messages (after filtering)
with a header like this:

Tue Mar 21 16:21:39 2000

From: Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com>
Goto: http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5402
Reply: http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/?lugnet.admin.general:5402

------ Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page) ------

so I can highlight the url and middleclick to view or reply, with the web
interface...  Next step will be probably to have a button to reply via email
(either vi/mh or just gnuserv/mew) :)

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.

nod, that seems like a smart way to go at it, I might "borrow" the idea :)

Dan



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  Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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