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Re: [Pan-users] Feature request: merge groups.
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] Feature request: merge groups. |
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Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:00:43 -0700 |
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On Mon 06 Jan 2003 03:27, Bobby D. Bryant posted as excerpted below:
> What is the feasibility (and desirability) of having a newsreader
> support "virtual" newsgroups that are just views into two or more real
> newsgroups?
>
> What I'm thinking is that if you frequent several newsgroups with a lot
> of similar content and cross-posting, it would be very nice to have
> your newsreader present them to you as if they were a single newsgroup,
> without displaying all the duplicate posts.
Like BNR2? That sort of thing, along with virtual server support (such that
it would be able to download posts from whatever server they happened to be
on, starting with the ones marked as priority servers, probably your ISP
bundled servers, then switching to the pay per meg servers after all the
parts on the free server were downloaded but there were still parts missing,
and also allowing the use of multiple connections to multiple servers at
once, automatically, and only having to queue up the downloads once to use
all available servers and connections as needed), is planned, but currently
on hold, waiting on a back-end data-base change, as that will make it far
easier to implement. They are planning to switch PAN to using an SQLite type
db backend, with the added bonus that it should allow users to access the
database with tools like MySQL for more powerful management features as well,
should that be desired. Once the db switch happens, support for virtual
servers and virtual newsgroups should be far easier ti implement, and thus
not terribly far behind.
--
Duncan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
Benjamin Franklin
Re: [Pan-users] Feature request: merge groups.,
Duncan <=
Re: [Pan-users] Feature request: merge groups., Brian Morrison, 2003/01/08
Re: [Pan-users] Feature request: merge groups., Charles Kerr, 2003/01/08