Re: Ghost Town
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 11:32:06 +0200
Message-ID: <42f5d50b$0$11071$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Kenneth Downs wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>>Kenneth Downs wrote: >>>Marshall Spight wrote: >>>>Geeze, this place is dead lately. >>> >>>You know though it doesn't look that way when >>>you come back from vacation. >> >>Indeed. Over 400 unread postings.
>
> Maybe that is only 400 referents to postings not yet
> identified but which we provably can show are unread.
Heh. But there is something here I suspect. 'posting.read' is a bit of information the client (newsreader) holds. It can only calculate it over headings already local - so identified. Many internet protocols imply distributed databases.
We don't talk much about distributed data, do we?
> Or maybe if we consult the type engine we will find that the
> class [800/2] = [1600/4] and therefore you can represent the
> entire thing in xDB2, which now stores its files in UUENCODE'd XML.
>
> And of course if Dawn gets involved you'll have to get
> those postings into an ordered list.
Most of the time a tree based on reply-threads is my preferred presentation.
>>>Some of the threads make a lot more sense when you can >>>them through in a batch instead of daily. Received on Sun Aug 07 2005 - 11:32:06 CEST