Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: too many new groups (keyword based news) Message-ID: <2444@nsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 13:41:59 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2444 Posted: Wed Mar 6 13:41:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 05:34:07 EST References: <576@vortex.UUCP> <614@plus5.UUCP> <2413@nsc.UUCP> <163@dmsd.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Organization: The Village Lines: 23 Summary: John's comments are well taken (I won't repeat them here) but look at the problem with a different solution set than I did. I specifcally looked at at integrating a keyword scheme into the existing software, he is talking about a complete rewrite. I'd love to see a complete rewrite because it would allow us to change a lot of things we didn't know about the first time around, but I don't know if we can really find the time in a volunteer effort to do it right. If you want to look at a complete rewrite of news, I wish you luck-- that's a LOT of code, and it has to be compatible with the existing news systems at the transport layer (well, it REALLY doesn't, but you'd get really lonely if you didn't talk to all those people....). I can usually find time here and there to fix up parts of the existing software, but knowing the amount of free time I tend to have, a major development project like that would take much too long to get any results, which is why I wasn't looking at it. chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach, National Semiconductor {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Be seeing you!