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- Generalized article set manipulation
- Interface to subject listing.
- Recursive newsgroup visitation.
- Virtual article abstract type to allow the following:
- Personalized header munging via % subs.
- Undigestification.
- Personal archive perusal.
- Mail handling.
- Parent command (waiting for ARTFILE interface and recursive newsgroups).
- Merge Pnews and postnews.
- Vnews duplicate suppression algorithm for sites that can't do Xref patch.
- Dynamic allocation of stuff currently restricted by MAXRCLINE.
- (And pull parallel arrays into array of structs).
- Separation of .newsrc functions and newsgroup functions to separate processes
- communicating via pipes (to make fit on non-separate-I-and-D pdp11,
- or unreasonable facsimiles thereof).
- Faster!!!
- Smaller!!!
- More general!!!
- Perfect?
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- Better NNTP Support
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- The current NNTP support requires a duplicate database be maintained on each
- client machine. Currently, this requires each client to run the NNTP version
- of mthreads to access all the articles headers to create the local copy of the
- thread database. There are a number of ways this could be improved:
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- o Create the database on the server host and distribute the finished
- thread files to all the client hosts at regular intervals using ftp,
- mail, uucp, etc.
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- o Write an adjunct to NNTP that would serve to distribute thread data.
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- o Cajole the NNTP people to include a command to distribe an authorized
- list of files other than news articles (e.g. thread files).
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- o Eliminate the need for a thread database.
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- All these options are left as an exercise for the reader.
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