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Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
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Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:51:14 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:

> the advantage of that being that the spooler isn't being spammed by
> the clients to see if there's new msgs, but instead notifies them when
> they are...  Also that will make the messages get to the user faster,
> since it won't be based on the 1min/5min polling.

which brings me to another idea I've been playing with - a lugnet/ICQ portal...
instead of getting messages through the mail, or through NNTP, have them
appear in your icq client...  either set up a user for each newsgroup you're
subscribed to, or as one user...

the only problem is that I'm not sure how complete the perl ICQ module is. :P

Dan



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  Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
 
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:40:49 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)': (...) the advantage of that being that the spooler isn't being spammed by the clients to see if there's new (...) (27 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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