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- From: jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (John Hood)
- Subject: Re: Threaded news reader for DOS
- Organization: Cthulhu Worship Meeting of Southern Vermont
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:37:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.073731.13225@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
- References: <23kuXB1w165w@quest.UUCP>
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- In article <23kuXB1w165w@quest.UUCP> srhqla!quest!kdq writes:
- > I have written a news threader (like that for trn) that creates a
- >thread file in the specified directories. I've beaten on it pretty
- >heavily and it appears to be relatively immune to problems. I'm
- >looking for someone who has a reasonable unthreaded news reader (I
- >haven't seen any threaded ones) that's interested in making use of my
- >threader.
- >
- > The executable and documentation is available to anyone; the
- >source is available to the authors of newsreaders. The output is a
- >plain text file - I can provide routines to recreate the thread
- >structure in memory, or even to do all the thread manipulation and
- >call your browser when the appropriate file has already been opened.
- >
- > The threader is straightforward to use. You specify one or more
- >directories, specify whether directory recursion is to be used (can
- >be turned on and off), and specify whether it should report what it's
- >doing (verbose mode). It can also be set to purge old threads (a
- >thread with no current articles).
- >
- > If you're interested, please contact me via email (make sure the
- >reply-to hasn't been munged (see the .sig). This site receives
- >alt.bbs.waffle, but not comp.bbs.waffle (sigh - it's an upstream
- >problem).
-
- I hate to rain on the parade, but there is an emerging standard in the
- Usenet world for threading called NOV (News OverView). If you want to
- provide code that makes any sense for people doing NNTP-capable
- newsreaders, you had better go look at the NOV stuff, as should anyone
- who's doing a threaded newsreader. Look in news.software.nntp, among
- other places, for discussion about it.
-
- --jh
-
-
- --
- John Hood Cthulhu-- just imagine it!
- jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us
- Duke U, 1980: "Okay, so a few systems have the net started. What next?"
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