[Nymproxy-devel] NNTP thoughts

[Deacon <de...@re...>]

I keep bouncing between working on the POP3 proxy and developing the NNTP
proxy... I really should stick to on or the other :)

I'm pondering how to do the NNTP part. As with POP3, I'm thinking of having
a thread to download all messages in the newsgroups the user would like to
see, so that the user simply reads messages out of their own little news
spool. We could even have it work something like leafnode, if you're
familiar with that program. By that I mean: if the user connects to a
newsgroup that has not been read before, the proxy will download all the
messages and continue downloading new ones until the user no longer reads
the group.

There are a few advantages to this:
The ISP can single out what messages the user reads
The user can filter out junk - the current situation in apas shows the need
for this

Disadvantages:
mainly, diskspace and bandwidth usage.

So, as much as I like the idea, I think just making it an option is the best
route. Maybe having levels: download all messages and their bodies, download
just the headers (you could at least filter on those), or just be a true
proxy.

I'm open to suggestions on this.

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