Re: Adding something like IWANT to innd?

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 22:06:14 -0600
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

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.

Probably, but sometimes you have to challenge the norm. Maybe suck will
do what I want, I'll look into it. 



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