Whole buncha d-u-m-b questions

bill davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Aug 14 04:06:43 UTC 2000


In article <yl7l9nek11.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> you write:
| 
| bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
| > In article <ylbt03sqcx.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> you write:
| 
| >> It should be able to feed from regular file names as well as storage
| >> API tokens; I've added that to the TODO list.  It's nice to be able to
| >> use innxmit to feed a bunch of random files you found on your hard disk
| >> somewhere to some random news server just to see what it'll do with
| >> them.  Like, say, backfill a group you keep forever from your backups
| >> that you've been trying to get around to loading for years now and are
| >> using switching to a new news server for an excuse to get to.
| 
| > Why bother? This is already done by rnews, and since I applied the patch
| > you gave me the other day it works (again) beautifully.
| 
| 'cause innxmit takes a list, and if you can put the message ID in the list
| it won't even try to open the article if the remote server already has
| that message ID, which under many circumstances makes it a lot faster.

Of course in the scenario you mentioned the data is in files, and you
have to open them to get the message-id anyway. If it makes you happy,
go to it.


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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.



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