On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Brandon wrote:
>
> Brandon:
> > >Real updating will be quite a bit faster. A lot faster, actually. Because
> > >it requires one request instead of an indefinite number which tends to get
> > >bigger.
> > >
>
> BC:
> > Properly set up MSKs will only require one request per document after the
> > initial (date-redirected) download of the mapfile.
>
> Indeed, date-redirecting works fine. I was talking about version (not
> date) updating versus real updating. Version/real updating has some
> advantages over date updating such as not having to do an update except
> when something has actually changed.
Yes, and MSKs make it trivial to regularly insert your site. Without MSKs
this was a valid point, because it was not feasible to insert 10,000
redirects every hour. But with MSKs, inserting the updated version is so
trivial you could do it every minute, and as a bonus, you get an
easily-accessible complete archive of your previous posts, perfect for
news sites or moderated discussion groups where content is updated often.
Moderated discussion groups would be a good project for EOF. You use a MSK
to redirect to a HTML file containing the text of the last 100 messages or
so (under "index.html") updated very often. That lets casual readers
browse through a HTML page of recent messages, and lets the inserted embed
a link to the previous 100 and the next 100, which is a pretty robust web
archive. Also, you insert at the same interval a document containing just
the newest messages. This document is read by a specialized client.
A good idea for a specialized reader would be a Freenet-mail daemon that
reqests the new messages from the forums you are subscribed to and mails
them to you individually or digested.
Also an insertion daemon would be necessary. It would queue up messages to
be inserted and insert them at the proper interval. It could read the
messages automatically from a insertion subspace (where everyone knows the
keys) or from a regular newsgroup or mailing list. It could be set to wait
for a moderator to screen the messages, too.
Is anyone writing a set of daemons like this, or should I go for it?
--
Mark Roberts
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