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[Pan-users] Feature request: additional download option
From: |
Jim Reiss |
Subject: |
[Pan-users] Feature request: additional download option |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:56:07 -0700 (MST) |
Haven't generated any interest with my past feature requests, but
undaunted I present my latest suggestion: a new download option to
select a range of recent headers instead of just the XXXXX most recent.
For example, instead of the 50000 most recent, download the first 10000
that you would get from a "50000" most recent. This might look like
50000-40000 as a range, or it might be implemented as "sample 10000
headers starting 50000 back".
What is this good for? My ISP's news server (giganews) has a fairly
small download limit, so I only use it when I can't fill missing posts
elsewhere. With their retention many groups may have hundreds of
thousands of articles, and I usually only want the past couple of days
worth. So I grab, say, 50000 most recent. Then I find out I needed the
70000 most recent. So I ask for that and then abort the download when
it looks like I've filled in the headers I need. A new download option
would be more precise and allow downloading smaller samples to get a
feel for where in those thousands of headers is the group I'm looking
for, so maybe I'd only need to sample 5000 headers.