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From: cgf@ednor.bbc.com (Chris Faylor)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Pseudo-Centralized .newsrc (was Dynamic "smart" expiration?)
Message-ID: <1990Jan3.040216.2978@ednor.bbc.com>
Date: 3 Jan 90 04:02:16 GMT
References: <1989Dec27.033817.9953@smsc.sony.com> <1+G_R_@rpi.edu> <6143@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: cgf@ednor.UUCP (Chris Faylor)
Organization: Boston Business Computing, Ltd.; Lawrence, MA
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Instead of reinventing a new ".newsrc" format, why not just develop individual
filters for the formats used by the finite number of newsreaders that are out
there?  The output for the filter is the input for the new-improved expire.
An individual user could 'register' the newsreader he was using so that
the expire process would know what filter to apply to his ".newsrc".

Any future newsreader writers could also be expected to provide filters for
their programs.

Or is this too slow?  Seems like we are already talking s..l..o..w.. if we
are talking about reading each user's file and generating tables from them.
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			 Chris Faylor
		      cgf@ednor.bbc.com