Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: High Volume Calles For New Approach
Message-ID: <2478@looking.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 14:41:32 GMT
References: <440@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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When I designed K news 6 years ago, the solution to this problem seemed
evident.   Use the same subscription mechanism for sites that exists for
readers.  (It B news, that's the newsrc file, in K news, it is a file
containing the "article selection language.")

The batching program should just be a variant of the newsreading program.
It finds all the articles that have not been read in the subscribed
groups, spews them out into the batch, and marks them read in the .newsrc.

Sites would have the option of giving write perms on .newsrc files to the
sites that they feed.  Or they could change them on their own, as they
do today.

The K news article selection language would be a better step, but for
this purpose and newsreaders, since it let you say things like:

news.misc & !talk.bizarre & #lines < 200
!( user=richmond && site=athena.mit.edu )

etc. etc.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473