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Lately I've been thinking a bit about whether to create nngoogle.  (My
ISPs news server has now been down for *one* *whole* *hour*!!)  We
have nnweb, of course, bug I'm thinking more along the lines of being
able to subscribe to nngoogle:comp.lang.lisp as a "normal" group, and
get new articles and stuff.

I've looked over the groups.google.com interface, and we can get "raw"
articles, so that's ok, but the problem seems to be that there's no
way to get the number of articles in a group, so that nngoogle would
know when to try to fetch new articles, etc.  The only way seems to be
to fetch ...?group=comp.lang.lisp and see whether there's any new
articles there, and maintain a message-id/nngoogle map.

Anybody have any comments on this before I start hacking?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen