Re: Obsolete files

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>
> They're gone now.
>
>>    lisp/nndb.el
>>
>> Does this work?  The server you need doesn't seem to be available
>> anywhere.
>
> I don't really understand what this supposed to do.

The nndb program was a Perl script which talked a modified NNTP
protocol.  Basically, it was NNTP plus some commands that allowed you
to modify the groups -- remove articles, edit articles, and such.

nndb.el was a backend that did what nntp.el did plus it provided
support for the additional commands.

The idea was that the nndb program used Berkeley DB for storage of NOV
data (maybe other things, too), and such some operations could be
faster.  Theoretically.  Maybe it also stored the articles themselves
in Berkeley DB, I don't remember.

These days, people just use IMAP.

Kai