Re: [Nymproxy-devel] NNTP thoughts

[Peter P. <pe...@pa...>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Deacon wrote:

> I'm pondering how to do the NNTP part. As with POP3, I'm thinking of havi=
ng
> 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.
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> 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 ne=
ed
> for this
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> Disadvantages:
> mainly, diskspace and bandwidth usage.
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> So, as much as I like the idea, I think just making it an option is the b=
est
> route. Maybe having levels: download all messages and their bodies, downl=
oad
> just the headers (you could at least filter on those), or just be a true
> proxy.
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> I'm open to suggestions on this.

I would download pop3 mail via cron/in the background and store them
on the proxy.  For the user it should appear as if the message was in
the newsgroup local.pop.<accountname>.

For usenet traffic I'ld suggest being a transparent proxy for reading.
You don't even need to cache posts as that is done by the client anyway.

					yours,
					peter
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