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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
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Subject: Re: Adding something like IWANT to innd?
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 22:06:14 -0600
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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.



-- 
Grant. . . .