Re: Thread watchers (was: The Bat! - suggestions)

2000-10-11 Thread Thomas Fernandez
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 retriev

Re: Thread watchers (was: The Bat! - suggestions)

2000-10-11 Thread Ming-Li
On Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 6:44:22 AM, Thomas wrote: > 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.

Re: Thread watchers (was: The Bat! - suggestions)

2000-10-11 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Ming-Li, On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 07:59:38 -0700 GMT (11/10/2000, 22:59 +0800 GMT), Ming-Li wrote: >> 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

Re: Thread watchers (was: The Bat! - suggestions)

2000-10-11 Thread Ming-Li
On Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 8:28:08 AM, Thomas wrote: ML>> In Agent, no. At least I don't feel it. AFAIK, all news ML>> messages carry full thread references in the headers (am I ML>> right?), so all Agent has to do before retrieving new messages ML>> of a group is to quickly scan through all

Re: Thread watchers (was: The Bat! - suggestions)

2000-10-11 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:54:59 -0700, Ming-Li wrote: ML> That's even better. If you're serious in getting a newsreader ML> (haven't you got one already?), though, I would suggest you start ML> with Gravity or XNews, both having the same or similar capa