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Re: A possible enhancement idea
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Wed, 20 Jun 2001 23:19:00 GMT
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:52:16PM +0000, LUGNET Admin wrote:
> > Each post could be displayed with a set of buttons placed next to each one
> > (or perhaps checkboxes beside each message and one set of buttons). It
> > would work similar to the way a web-based email reader works (like AOL's
> > web-based email, anyway). And only the messages referred to by the several
> > authentication numbers posted to the website would be displayed.
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> I think it's "safe" enough, and fairly straightforward to implement, but it
> would be pretty slow to pass multiple articles through on a single form
> click, due to the way the HTTP server talks to the NNTP server, and I'd be
> worried about people hitting Stop or Esc when it goes past 5 seconds. An
> intermediate solution might be to display the articles one-by-one and
> advance to the next one when the Post It button is clicked, or maybe to do
> that in groups of three articles, or something.
can't just fork the job to the background, say "It's done!", so the user
can go on it's way, and the server take it's sweet (niced :) time posting
the articles?
--
Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750
<set:8216_1>: Turbo I (LEGO/TECHNIC/Tech Play/Starter), '97, 91 pcs
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| (...) Oh. Hmm. Yes, excellent idea. Or spool it into a processing queue that gets processed frequently and in a serial way. :-) -- Todd S. Lehman | LUGNET Admin <todd@lugnet.com> (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) That would be cool. It would require keeping an index of yet-unconfirmed articles on a person-by-person basis (it doesn't currently track this) and just including that, or looking it up on-the-fly based on one of them. (...) I think it's (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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