Re: troll performance questions

Quoting Jan Schneider <[email protected]>:

> > No idea.  But it would be trivial.  Worse case would be read in the
> > user's
> > list (.newsrc, etc) to an array, do an nntp "list" command into an array,
> > and find the differences between the arrays (for deletes and additions).
> > With the fantastic array functions/handling in php, this should be extra
> > trivial.
> 
> That's indeed trivial, but it wasn't what I was talking about. We would
> still need to retrieve the whole list from the server, comparing it to the
> user's list. What other clients do is getting anyhow an update list from the
> server that only contains new (and probably deleted) groups.

I can see how you can get a list of new newsgroups from the server, but I don't
know how you would get a list of deleted ones.  Hence my proposed solution, 
which would do both.  But then, it has been almost 4 years since I ran a
news server, so I may just have forgotten how it all works...  (And no, I 
don't miss running one at all, I'm very happy letting someone else handle
that pain)

> Jan.

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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