Re: nnrss slow

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:44:33 +0100 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> wrote: 

>>>>>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
>> I like nntp/rss better for this since I can just use it as a NNTP
>> server, personally,

SB> Hmm... neat: http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/

>> but I agree asynchronous fetching of RSS feeds would be nice.

SB> Does it poll the RSS stream when you read the corresponding NNTP group?

No, periodically as I have it set up (might be possible to do it
synchronously, I don't remember).

SB> There's a script linked to from the home page that appearently pulls
SB> articles from nntp//rss groups, and feeds them to groups on an INN
SB> server. 

SB> That's a possibility for a larger site, but seems like a bit of overkill
SB> for a personal setup.

It works for me as a central repository of posts, but if I had to start
setting up custom scripts I would probably go straight to the source
or use one of the 10^7 aggregator services out there.

Ted