Hello Ming-Li,
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 05:27:32 -0700 GMT (11/10/2000, 20:27 +0800 GMT),
Ming-Li wrote:
>>>> How long do other programs "kill" or "watch" the thread?
ML>>> As long as the thread lives.
>> Quesstion: how long is that?
ML> In Agent, there's no special database for this. When retrieving new
ML> headers (or whole messages, depending on the settings of the group)
ML> for a newsgroup, it checks against the messages in your local
ML> database (of the group), and ignores any new message belonging to
ML> any killed thread. So you can say it probably makes up a virtual
ML> database on the fly of all the message IDs of killed and watched
ML> threads of a particular group when it's retrieving new headers.
So it checks for each new message coming in whether this thread
already exists somewhere in the message base and has been marked
"ignore"? This can be awfully slow when you have thousands of
messages, if I understand you correctly.
>> [Kill thread:] - (BTW we have to find a politically correct
>> word for this <g>)
ML> Maybe that's why Agent calls it "Ignore thread". :) Just kidding.
I like that word much better. :-)
ML> Agent ties the terminology with its keyboard shortcut (another point
ML> I like). So you hit "I" for Ignore, "W" for Watch, and "K" for Keep.
ML> (Of course, there're toolbar buttons, too.)
Oh, the single-letter shortcuts. How I would love them. ;-)
ML> And Agent use "Kill" filters. I've never had problem with that. Why
ML> is "kill" politically incorrect in this context?
Unfortunately, in this context (computers) it's correct. In politics,
or in real life, it is a very brutal word.
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