On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:31:34AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:21:46AM -0400, Travis Bemann wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:09:58AM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have thought of an idea that could make freenet a lot more useful.
> > > > Basically the idea is a Freenews - a freenet based usenet.
> > >
> > > The EOF project (eof.sourceforge.net) has a functioning news over Freenet
> > > implementation and an NNTP gateway so that you can use your normal news
> > > reader to read Freenet news. There's a lot you could do to improve this
> > > code if you're interested. You should join the EOF dev mailing list and we
> > > should take discussion over there.
> >
> > Actually, it's not functioning anymore, for one main reason.
> >
> > This one reason is that I modified the Downloader to use a date and
> > count, instead of just an IIRC autoincremented count, but I haven't
> > yet modified the rest of EOF news to use this properly. The reason
> > why I did this is that this gets around the find-the-first-message
> > problem that I found back in the fnnews days (this was necessary). I
> > did this a while ago, but haven't gotten around to changing the rest
> > of EOF news.
>
> I forgot to say that I also modified Uploader to use a date and
> count.
And by the way, I've just found the class that uses Downloader and
Uploader. It's NewsFolder, and finding it will make fixing EOF news
to use both a date and a count instead of just a count much easier.
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