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[Jeff Relf]

Hi MartinS,

Re: Google's ****ed-up threading system.

I'm in the long process of writing my own newsreader now.
I'm calling it RRR_Puppy .
( By the way, I think writing it will be
more fun than actually using it.
I'll test it at the Univ. of Wash.'s computer labs. )

I'm going to ignore the RFC that suggests that
all threads should have the same Subject line.
To me, No so called Threads exist,
there are only the links in the References line.
So the Subject line has nothing to do with that, I say.
Nothing at all ... Google be damned.

My client will use the XHdr command to download
only the best headers, such as the Path line,
which is the most important header of all.

My client will mainly use GPU blts,
which is a VRAM to VRAM copy,
so the CPU won't be dragging down the graphics.
( e.g. It will scroll as fast as you can feed it data )

I'm also going to write a full featured editor,
styled after Microsoft's Developer's Studio,
including block select, a keystroke recorder/player,
on-the-fly spell checking, unlimited undo/redo, etc.

Oh, and it's wrapping will never break links either.

Although it's speed will depend on how much VRAM
one has, it will work the same regardless of
one's resolution or the size/location of the taskbar.

 

[Jarrod Cifer]

Jeff Relf, upon reaching nirvana, postulated:

I'm in the long process of writing my own newsreader now.

Please do read this:
http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/news-software-authors.html

 

[Anders Tomilsson]

Hell is a little cooler.

Tom Lake

Besides, Texas is now the 3rd-largest state.

They cut Alaska in half.

(For some reason, Texans don't find that joke very funny)

 

[Phred]

Hi MartinS,

Re: Google's ****ed-up threading system.

I'm in the long process of writing my own newsreader now.
I'm calling it RRR_Puppy .
( By the way, I think writing it will be
more fun than actually using it.
I'll test it at the Univ. of Wash.'s computer labs. )

I'm going to ignore the RFC that suggests that
all threads should have the same Subject line.
To me, No so called Threads exist,
there are only the links in the References line.

Considering that a zillion different threads may have the same Subject
line ("Please help!" comes to mind using References is really the
only way to go, as you say.

So the Subject line has nothing to do with that, I say.
Nothing at all ... Google be damned.

My client will use the XHdr command to download
only the best headers, such as the Path line,
which is the most important header of all.

My client will mainly use GPU blts,
which is a VRAM to VRAM copy,
so the CPU won't be dragging down the graphics.
( e.g. It will scroll as fast as you can feed it data )

I'm also going to write a full featured editor,
styled after Microsoft's Developer's Studio,
including block select, a keystroke recorder/player,
on-the-fly spell checking, unlimited undo/redo, etc.

Oh, and it's wrapping will never break links either.

Although it's speed will depend on how much VRAM
one has, it will work the same regardless of
one's resolution or the size/location of the taskbar.

Wish you luck!



Cheers, Phred.

 

[Jeff Relf]

Hi Phred,

Re: Google's crappy threading methoud.

You said,
' Considering that a zillion different threads
may have the same Subject line
( " Please help ! " comes to mind
using References is really the only way to go,
as you say. "

I'm glad you agree,
now if only we could convince Google.

By the way, Because I usually only see unread messages
and because I purge messages older than five days,
even if a thread were massively long and deep,
I'd still only see collapsed threads that
expanded to a relatively small size.
In fact, I might see 10 virtual threads
from that one Real thread.

If only Google would do that, using cookies.

Re: My news client project, called RRR_Puppy.

You wrote, " Wish you luck ! "

Thank you. I've already solved
the problem I mentioned a few minutes ago here,
where I must turn off the system's cursor
and replace it with a special VRAM cursor.
I just do a full screen paint on every WM_MOUSEMOVE event.
It's blazing fast, instant and flicker free,
so it's never a problem to paint that much.
The paint routine always adds a clipped VRAM cursor.

The taskbar must be left undisturbed,
so when the cursor is partially over the taskbar
I'll just XOR-paint the cursor in the
previous and current position ... piece of cake.

 

[Tech Zero]

The voice of "Jeff Relf" drifted in on the cyber-winds,
from the sea of virtual chaos...

I'm going to ignore the RFC that suggests that all threads should
have the same Subject line. To me, No so called Threads exist,
there are only the links in the References line. So the Subject
line has nothing to do with that, I say. Nothing at all...

Good in theory, impractical in the real world...

There are far too many broken reference headers in Usenet posts
to reliably thread on only the references header. AOL and similar
services "murder" the references header, keeping only the MID of
the message that's being replied to, and most Anon servers
completely strip out the references header.

What can you rely on if there isn't an available ref header?
Sadly, only the Subject & "time" headers...

So the best method would be to use the References header first, and
fall back on the Subject/Date if that header is missing (something like
what OE does).

My client will use the XHdr command to download only the best
headers, such as the Path line, which is the most important header
of all.

Expensive... Your newsreader will be slower and not all news servers
support the XHDR command nowadays.

I'm also going to write a full featured editor, styled after
Microsoft's Developer's Studio, including block select, a
keystroke recorder/player, on-the-fly spell checking,
unlimited undo/redo, etc.

That would be cool... };8)
Hmmm... The feel of Xnews, with the edit of Ms Word...

Oh, and it's wrapping will never break links either.

Do you plan on "fixing" already broken quotes or will you be leaving
them all "untouched"?

 

[DEATH TO KENT WEST HILL]

Hi Phred,

Re: Google's crappy threading methoud.

You said,
' Considering that a zillion different threads
may have the same Subject line
( " Please help ! " comes to mind
using References is really the only way to go,
as you say. "

I asked LeeLee Sobieski

http://www.leeleesobieski.com/

and she said that Google's threading model was highly sub-optimal.

that's why they need so many servers to do a simple Boolean search, said
Leelee.

oh, you weren't talking about those threads...

 

[sittingduck]

I'm in the long process of writing my own newsreader now.
I'm calling it RRR_Puppy .

Christ, you can't even ****ing manage to quote text properly, how the hell
are you going to write a newsreader?

 

[Robert Singers]

Out from under a rock popped sittingduck and said

Christ, you can't even ****ing manage to quote text properly, how the
hell are you going to write a newsreader?

With faeces on his wall.