[news.software.nn] News readers and their databases.

Sm@bhpese.bhpese.oz.au (Scott Merrilees) (02/07/90)

We run both rn & nn here. Nn maintains an article database, suggested mods
to rn to allow it to do thread following also require a database.  It would
be nice if all news readers that use an article/subject/whatever database
used the same database (possibly it should be configurable what information
was stored in the database, thus allowing people with less ambitious news
readers to use less space for the database), otherwise I can see my news
spool partition being 80% news reader databases and 20% news articles.
Comments?

Sm
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davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) (02/09/90)

Scott Merrilees (Sm@bhpese.bhpese.oz.au) wrote:
} We run both rn & nn here. Nn maintains an article database, suggested mods
} to rn to allow it to do thread following also require a database.  It would
} be nice if all news readers that use an article/subject/whatever database
} used the same database [...]

A nice idea.  I'm also curious what exactly TMNN (a.k.a. B news 3.0) does
to accomplish their threaded newsreader support.  Some sort of data format
"standard" would seem to be a good thing to get started.  I know that our
site is currently running both "mthreads" and "nnmaster", and devoting
about 10% of our newsspool size to newsreader data.

As the author of the threaded version of rn, I'm open to suggestions.  Nn's
database doesn't (as yet) have any parent/child information, nor the message
ids needed to process future articles.  If Kim goes ahead with his plans to
add thread menus to nn, such information will be added, but I don't think
he's had the time to delve into this area yet.

If anyone has previous experience, design ideas, or TMNN information, drop
me a line.
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