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 In article <199707292012131501264@pwomar.demon.co.uk>
  News@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:-

>Gary Priest <gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Just for everyones info :)
>> 
>> Due to the heavy bombing and the fact that ICE packed up and Oasis2 lost all
>> my stored news articles. I've started writing a NEWS equivalent to POPwatch.
>> 
>> It will allow sending/receiving of news in both NOS and Oasis2 format. So it
>> can be used with Oasis1.3x or 2.
>> 
>> It will also have a killfile and *especially* the above idea. If you specify
>> a message id (such as @kidsoft.com), then it won't request the articles at
>> all. Should speed things up immensely if anything like that happens again.
>> 
>> I've only just started writing it, so it's not ready for release yet!!
>
>Are you sure that it doesn't just duplicate the actions of the NOS
>killfile?  It is trivial to stop NOS from fetching messages with
>specific message id's.  The problem in the bombing case was the sheer

Err. Yes I am trying to replicate NOS in the way it downloads news (as far
as flexibility and speed go). But with STiK!!!
Maybe I didn't make that clear. I did say it was similar to POPwatch :)

>number of headers, you have to download the header in order to find out
>if you want the actual article body or not, to the best of my knowledge
>you can't say to the newsserver "don't send me any headers with
>kidsoft.com in them" or similar.

If it's so 'trivial' to stop NOS downloading messages with ID's then I don't
understand the above statement. You seem to contradict yourself here.
First you say it's trivial then you say it's not possible!

If you use NEWNEWS to download a list of message IDs (not headers), then of
course you can exclude those message ID's. Obviously you have to download
the ID's using NEWNEWS, but then you simply ignore them. Thus you don't
download the header or body. Just the ID.

Maybe your MAC software can't do that. But News Hound will!!! Perhaps you
should switch back to the Atari :-))
 
Gary
    

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