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From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Dynamic "smart" expiration?
Message-ID: <WAYNE.90Jan9160339@dsndata.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 90 22:03:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: fmayhar@ladc.bull.com's message of 8 Jan 90 23:06:24 GMT


In article <1990Jan8.230624.8684@ladc.bull.com> fmayhar@ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar) writes:
> 
>                           Still, it should be possible to keep a list of
> subscribers, the machines that they live on, the last article they've seen
> in each group, and the time they saw it.  If you do it right (e.g. by
> constructing a set of library routines to maintain the stuff), you should
> be able to retrofit this into existing newsreaders, and into NNTP.
> [ ... ]


excellent idea.  of course, you should make sure your elisp library
doesnt use any feature more recent than 18.40 or so.  you wouldnt want
to cause people with old versions of emacs to have too many problems
using your routines.  :->

(yes folks, the _only_ two news readers that i have ever used have
been written in emacs lisp.  i am so happy with gnus that i doubt that
i would ever spend the time to switch to another reader, even if it
was "better"...)


-wayne