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Subject: Re: KRN
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date: 1997-08-21 9:47:09
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On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Robert Vukovic wrote:
> > On most newsreaders, when you read an article, it looks at the Xref: line
> > and knows to mark read the 345th article in this group, the 1242th
> > article in that other group, and so on.
> >
> > It stores that information in your .newsrc file like
> >
> > new.announce:1-23456,23458,23460-23490
> >
> > This approach has advantages and disadvantages:
> >
> > Advantage: It's fast.
> > Disadvantages: doesn't support multiple servers.
> > makes offline reading quite harder than it needs to be.
> >
> > On krn, I decided to go the slow-but-flexible way, and make the
> > "readness" a feature of the article itself. I hope this is slow only
> > because of my braindead implementation, or I'll be in big trouble :-)
> >
> > > > The network part should not be really slow. I certainly see no easy ways
> > > > to make it much faster, but I can always look harder.
> > > >
> > > > Once again, if you tell me which parts you find the slowest, I'll look
> > > > harder into that.
> > >
> > > Fetching the newsgroup and article list (I guess you jsut told the reason)
> > > and scrolling through the list.
> >
> > Ok, I'll look into it.
> >
> > ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina
> > `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) ralsina@unl.edu.ar
> > (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' Centro de Telematica
> > _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' Universidad Nacional del Litoral
> > (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' Santa Fe - Argentina
>
>
> Sorry to mention but MS News (from Internet Explorer 3.0 pack) can mark
> messages for download and they stay on disk for off-line reading.I think
> that it uses one file for one newsgroup.
Don't be sorry, we all have sins ;-)
I'm quite certain that the slowness is my fault, and not a design
problem. Actually I have speeded it up notably. Next version should be
fairly better.
>
> Robert Vukovic
> vrobert@uns.ns.ac.yu
>
>
>
("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina
`9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) ralsina@unl.edu.ar
(_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' Centro de Telematica
_..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' Universidad Nacional del Litoral
(l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' Santa Fe - Argentina
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