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Subject:	Re: NNTP vs Web Interface (was Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.nntp
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:31:36 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Frank Filz writes: > I guess it may be time for me to crack the programming manuals and > explore writing a newsreader like interface which can drive the web > interface. I know it's a bit inside out... but talk to Sproat and look at avid. Details are hazy but it may be of some help to you. (not to me, I swore off NNTP and do web exclusively, but yes, I agree with you, I feel it is another anti NNTP development here) IIRC Avid uses the NNTP stream to display stuff as it happens. It has the FUT info in it so you may be able to use the NNTP stream to display followups. I dunno, I never looked under the hood. Sproat? ++Lar

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		Re: NNTP vs Web Interface (was Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
(...) from what I remember about avid, it just gives you the last x articles, starting from article number y... when you do with that data is all up to you - it does give you all the headers, so you could track msgids of threads that wander about, (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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		NNTP vs Web Interface (was Official vs. unofficial LEGO postings)
I've been thinking about another aspect of this whole thing. Unless I misread something and TLC will not be allowed to reply to a post which is posted to a non .lego area, what this really amounts to is yet another example of discrimination against (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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