[ai_group] Re: newsreader project
- From: John Jacques <johnj_01201@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ai_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
Oh, hahaha. I can see it in Netscape news, but you actually sent
"control.newsgroup" then fixed it with "control.newgroup", so I thought
that was the newsgroup name to type into foxynews.
Hope it didn't mess anything up, must be why Lines: wasn't right?
Thanks
John
--- "Dr.X" <drx@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> * Anybody know of a newsgroup posting program that we could use?
>
> I'm way ahead of you. I've been wanting to make this work but it
> seems you need
> some sort of network driver that I don't have. Maybe you can see
> something here
> that I don't.
>
> http://ai.cyberenhanced.com/files/news.zip
>
> also, I set up the news server with a group ( I mentioned this in a
> previous
> message ) called ai-group. You have been sending messages to a
> control group
> meant for the system. Lol
>
> Dr.X
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ai_group-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of John Jacques
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:18 PM
> To: ai_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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