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. Lines: 22 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