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Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:12:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:

I was surprised how easy it was to devise a little pseudo-news-streamer --
both on the server end and on the client end.

Hey, Todd:

I just wanted to say thanks for putting together the avid.cgi interface.
It's very nifty and cool, even if I don't write a local newsspooler to
attach to it.

My little app polls through avid, and shows a list of the most recent
messages.  If I want to read a particular message, I click it, and it
brings up a browser window with that message in the LUGNET web
interface.

So now I can download the overnight messages in the morning, and fire up
the avid feed to catch new messages.  Read, post, repeat.

Steve



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  Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
 
(...) Excellent! Glad to hear it! --Todd (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I was surprised how easy it was to devise a little pseudo-news-streamer -- both on the server end and on the client end. All a client has to do is poll a special URL periodically and check the global article count. If the count has changed, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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