* [9fans] news reader
@ 2003-01-17 15:32 steve.simon
2003-01-17 15:59 ` Russ Cox
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From: steve.simon @ 2003-01-17 15:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Hi,
How do people use nntpfs(1) ?
There was a news reader (rin) from york (I think) though I seem to rembember
it used a different news file format...
-Steve
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* Re: [9fans] news reader
@ 2003-01-17 18:33 rog
2003-01-17 23:51 ` Russ Cox
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From: rog @ 2003-01-17 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> How do people use nntpfs(1) ?
i did start using it, but found it hideously slow to start up, as it
checks info on all newsgroups at startup (a quick "list newsgroups" on
our nntp server gives a 1.8MB file, listing 41045 groups, which took
about 10 minutes to download - it's on a slower link than our usual
net connection).
there is an acme client that uses nntpfs; again, i didn't get very far
with it for the slowness reason...
cheers,
rog.
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* Re: [9fans] news reader
2003-01-17 18:33 rog
@ 2003-01-17 23:51 ` Russ Cox
2003-01-20 10:01 ` Adrian Tritschler
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From: Russ Cox @ 2003-01-17 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
it wouldn't be hard to add a newsgroup list
cache or a message cache to nntpfs. it also
wouldn't be hard to make the acme news client
remember which messages you read, etc.
if anyone's interested...
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* Re: [9fans] news reader
2003-01-17 23:51 ` Russ Cox
@ 2003-01-20 10:01 ` Adrian Tritschler
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From: Adrian Tritschler @ 2003-01-20 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Russ Cox wrote:
> it wouldn't be hard to add a newsgroup list
> cache or a message cache to nntpfs. it also
> wouldn't be hard to make the acme news client
> remember which messages you read, etc.
> if anyone's interested...
How hard would it be to add a little resilience to nntpfs' reading of the news
server?
I can get a minimal listing of groups, terminated by
bad nntp response: alt.chinchilla 0000039620 0000039440 y
alt.childrens-camps 0000000191 0000000191 y
syntax error in group lst, line 100790
Unfortunately alt.chinchilla appears alphabetically well before comp.os.*, or
any other group I'm interested in reading.
Adrian
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