From: Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk>
Subject: Re: Changing Default News Server
Date: 18 Jul 1996 14:30:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0fpw5thhfu.fsf@fraxinus.daimi.aau.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jan Vroonhof's message of 18 Jul 1996 14:13:14 +0200
Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> Lars Balker Rasmussen <gnort@daimi.aau.dk> writes:
> > Hmm, curious. Lars, how do you expect to solve this problem?
>
> The brute force solution would be to get the Message-ID's of all read
> messages and then look them up on the new server.
Precisely, that's a brute force ad-hoc solution, which would absolutely
not work if e.g. my local news-server (which has perverse expiration
times) was involved.
I had considered that one, but is that the _only_ approach you have
considered? In that case, the feature would only be useful for filling
up a feature list :-/
--
Lars Balker Rasmussen
<URL:http://www.daimi.aau.dk/~gnort/> <URL:mailto:lars@rasmussen.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-18 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-18 4:26 Lal Samuel Varghese
1996-07-18 7:13 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1996-07-18 23:41 ` Steven L Baur
1996-07-18 23:43 ` David Watson
1996-07-18 23:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-07-30 18:02 ` Ken Raeburn
1996-07-30 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-07-30 22:15 ` David Lebel
1996-07-31 3:00 ` Ken Raeburn
1996-07-18 11:22 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1996-07-18 11:27 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1996-07-18 12:13 ` Jan Vroonhof
1996-07-18 12:30 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen [this message]
1996-07-18 15:51 ` Jan Vroonhof
1996-07-18 16:40 ` Jan Vroonhof
1996-07-19 8:56 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
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