Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: UUNET Funds C News Development
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 21:55:56 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May29.215556.18947@looking.on.ca>
References: <JQY_QZ_@warwick.ac.uk> <1991May28.174051.11313@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May29.013013.23820@looking.on.ca> <1991May29.124844.9496@druid.uucp>

In article <1991May29.124844.9496@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>In article <1991May29.013013.23820@looking.on.ca> Brad Templeton writes:
>>the "unread" news.   They can change the .newsrc without your intervention,
>>and in fact can have it updated on a daily basis form their arbitron reports.
>Same idea I guess except that the list are automatically generated by what
>your users and your downstream users subscribe to.  I default to checking
>the list once an hour instead of daily though.  If you have a few levels
>of feed using the system and you also have bad timing it could take a few
>full periods to start the flow of a new group.

NOt same idea "except," sounds like same idea exactly.   The "daily" is of
course just an option about how often you run it in the cron.

It sounds like you've re-implemented exactly the same system.   Why?  Or
are there some extra features you did not mention?
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
