On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 08:11:25 -0400 (EDT) Richard Welty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RW> i might be persuaded to start taking a look at the newsreader side, given RW> that noone else is. don't expect rapid progress or anything like that. I would be willing to turn on some newsgroups (astually already did - one from my ISP) and start including News in my regular testing procedures. RW> i'm currently using Pan as a newsreader, it's mostly ok, but has a few RW> things i find annoying. does anyone have any X or other window system based RW> newsreaders they particularly like? (i used to use Agent on windoze, and RW> liked it, subject to a few caveats; Pan seems to be working in that style.) RW> RW> also, is there any documentation on the philosophy or design of the RW> existing newsreader bits in Mahogany, or is it just a matter of reading RW> code? Not that I have noticed. I haven't used News since I swapped to Linux but used is in conjunction with Hamster news/mail server with Win2K. My initial thoughts are there are two major initial glaring problems: a. It treats NNTP servers like IMAP server (ie it is basically an online news reader not offline) b. It does not have a .newsrc use functionality. The "create a folder for every group" concept is not going to scale to news reading. I want to hit subscribe and have everything else done for me like most other news programs do. ATM I use Mozilla and have used OE (ugh) and Pan and various others over the years. I would also suggest we examine the only standard for functionality I have been able to find for News readers ( http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/ ) and let that guide us as we proceed. What do you reckon? Does this seem sound as a guideline? I am going to download it and understand it. I must also get a copy of the RFC and see what it says. Let the fun begin :-) Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
