[9fans] news reader

[9fans] news reader

[steve.simon]

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

Re: [9fans] news reader

[Russ Cox]

/acme/news/guide, though there are some features missing.

Re: [9fans] news reader

[rog]

> 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.

Re: [9fans] news reader

[Russ Cox]

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...

Re: [9fans] news reader

[Adrian Tritschler]

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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