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Re: Almost there...almost there... :-,
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 12 May 2000 03:51:16 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> 1. But not to post new messages; i.e. starting a thread. Which would be
> trivial to implement. But since this app is mostly reactive rather than
> proactive, that is responding to items in a news stream rather than being a
> full-featured news reader, should I put it in? Arg.
I vote no.
Since I just bought the dao of pooh (an excellent book that I read long ago but
just never owned), perhaps a few quotes from the sages of our craft?
"inside every large clumsy program is a small elegant one struggling to break
free" which is a paraphrase of one of my favorite Comp Sci quotes, and "do one
thing and do it well" which is the unix utility mantra...
++Lar
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| Well, I finally got my streaming news client able to reply to messages (1) on LUGNET. It turns out I didn't need cookies after all! ...But then I vagualy remembered that this fact was mentioned in the past, but I haven't been able to find the (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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