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Subject:	Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Thu, 6 Apr 2000 05:09:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes: > Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote: > > well the way I see it (and Todd might prove me wrong) is that this way > > the client has the freedom to do whatever it wants with the ratings... > > such as have a separate default rating for each NG, or do some sort of > > statistical magic with that data - histograms, StdDev, etc... > > The downside, as I see it :) is that if the client just gets back one number > per article somehow, it's an afternoon/evening hack to add this to a > newsreader (like slrn) which already has GroupLens support. If the client > has to actually process data streams, it's a Project.... Well, maybe we can do both. Depends on the bandwidth and frequency of calls. --Todd

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		Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
(...) Well, I think it'd happen whenever slrn grabs headers for a newsgroup. That too much? (That would be in the case where there were a cgi which would take a list of articles [1] and return all values somehow. If it were a one request, one result (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: POST vs. GET (was: Re: IGNORE: yet another test message)
(...) The downside, as I see it :) is that if the client just gets back one number per article somehow, it's an afternoon/evening hack to add this to a newsreader (like slrn) which already has GroupLens support. If the client has to actually process (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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