[geeks] News help

[Chris Byrne]

I was thinking of something along those lines myself. I saw something like
that idea done once by some emacs god. He had several different servers set
up and could fetch a message from any of them, read it, and it would ignore
that same message when he updated his news from another server. I have no
idea how he did it except that it was coded in as part of his EMACS
operating environment. He was one of those guys who generally only used two
programs, bash and EMACS.

This same guy also built a computer controlled weather reciever that would
give him meteorological info as email (this was a few years ago before you
could get websites to do the same thing).

Chris Byrne



-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Joshua D Boyd
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 17:43
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] News help


On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:49:42PM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> Yeah I know the ID thing that's why I was wondering if it was a doable
> feature.
>
> I actually just downloaded gravity and the supergravity mod and I'm going
to
> try them out.

The IDs are unique to the server, but what if a news client would chop the
headers, then hash the remaining message?  Then it could ignore a message
the next time it saw one with an identical body.

At least, that was what my thought was.  I never got around to
implementing it.

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Joshua D. Boyd
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