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From: Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Adding something like IWANT to innd?
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 00:11:38 -0600
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 22:06:14 -0600
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

> On 3/7/25 4:37 AM, Nigel Reed wrote:
> > Good idea? bad idea? improvements?  
> 
> That's antithetical to how news transits peer news servers.
> 
> News servers peer with each other and distribute articles in a push 
> manner to flood fill the network.
> 
> Clients connect to reader servers and pull lists of articles and 
> selectively pull full articles.
> 
> If you want to pull some articles, look into something like "suck"
> which can be used to pull articles from servers and do something with
> them.
> 
> I think that INN also has something that's similar, though I've never 
> used it.
> 
> I think what you're suggesting is antithetical to how news servers
> push new articles to each other.
> 
> I don't fault the desire, just the suggested method.

Probably, but sometimes you have to challenge the norm. Maybe suck will
do what I want, I'll look into it.  



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