[ai_group] Re: newsreader project
- From: "Dr.X" <drx@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ai_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 23:46:56 -0400
John,
>It uses the "Lines:" keyword,
but is not reporting the # of lines in the message body. It seems to be
the number of lines written instead.
Since I never set up a news server before, I'm really not sure what you mean. I
look at the log file that foxynews generates but I don't see things like number
of lines or a lines keyword. I also don't see a number that correlates to the
number of lines that I download. Can you tell me where this info is so I can
test for myself and configure the server accordingly? There are tons of
configuration options on that server that I can play with. I just don't feel
like reading all through the help files looking for something like that. I'd
prefer to test it first and ask a newsgroup for the answer. By the way, we
should have considered a newsgroup when we decided to make this list. :)
Dr.X
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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:18 PM
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Subject: [ai_group] Re: newsreader project
I should have the new offline reader for foxynews finished for Friday
night/Saturday morning.
Anybody know of a newsgroup posting program that we could use?
I remeber "Blat.exe" for sending email, but I never heard of a news
poster.
Hello Dr.X, I've been trying out your news server. Thanks it is going
to be a big help. Just one note in case someone else tries to do a
newsreader and test it on your server. It uses the "Lines:" keyword,
but is not reporting the # of lines in the message body. It seems to be
the number of lines written instead. For example if I replied to this
message and just typed on 4 different lines, then it would report
"Lines: 4" when it should be more in the 20-30 line range.
The "Lines: " keyword isn't a required header, so it doesn't matter I
was just letting you know it isn't working correctly.
Info:
foxynews stores each message as an indiivual file called an Article.
Each Article has a number 000-999 appened to it "Article_000.txt".
The .log file for each newsgroup is very faulty. You can download the
same messages over and over again and it would not change the .log file
while it adds duplicate Article files. I didn't see any direct
relationship between the log file and the Articles, but the log file
does store the messageID, so foxynews must read EVERY Article in the
newsgroup directory to match it up with the messageID. So if there are
multiple copies of the same article it might (not sure) check each one
and not know they are the same article.
Also, because it stores each article in individual files it is really
slow.
John
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