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From: John McClary Prevost <visigoth@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: searching news groups
Date: 08 Aug 1997 01:47:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpd90ydfcps.fsf@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of 06 Aug 1997 10:06:46 +0200

>>>>> "kg" == Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
>>>>> On 05 Aug 1997, John McClary Prevost said:

    John> Hmm.  Sort of.  But don't you need to do something explicit
    John> (more than just "g") to get it to scan things?

    kg> M-x nnkiboze-generate-groups RET I think. 

Yeah, that's the one.

I've also determined that it's unnacceptable.  First: it seems fixated
on NNTP--I can't get it to scan my nnml groups.  Or rather, I can, but
it won't fetch articles.  It also doesn't seem to make any effort to
be fast--it took me a good 5 minutes simply to scan my email!  There
must be a better way than this.

First, we might be able to optimize somehow by noting changes in the
active info for groups--only update info about those groups which have
actually changed (more importantly, the messages that have changed!)
I'm willing to pay a first-time cost of 5ish minutes if I never have
to wait more than a few seconds afterwards.

Second, it ought to be able to deal with any sort of group (like
nnvirtual can) and not just nntp groups.  Does it do something heinous
like remember message-ids and assume that it can poll the news server
for them later?

Ah, well.  It was worth a try.  :)

John.


      reply	other threads:[~1997-08-08  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-08-01 13:56 Steinar Bang
1997-08-01 15:18 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-08-04 13:12   ` Steinar Bang
1997-08-04 14:31     ` Chris D. Halverson
     [not found]       ` <vpdwwm137ol.fsf@naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu>
     [not found]         ` <vaf2049w0va.fsf@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
1997-08-06  3:14           ` John McClary Prevost
1997-08-06  8:06             ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-08-08  5:47               ` John McClary Prevost [this message]

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