[mythtv-users] Mooting architecture for a DataDirect replacement

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Jun 22 20:01:54 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 03:51:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:30:34PM -0400, Rod Smith wrote:
> > > I would expect usability would be the main hinderance with NNTP.
> > 
> > Why? The idea is not (I presume) to force people to use news readers like 
> > Leafnode, Knews, or Pan to download listings. The idea (as I understand it) 
> > is to incorporate a specialized NNTP client into MythTV, or to be called by 
> > MythTV.
> 
> Well, you could start by installing Leafnode and having your
> client scan the automatically received messages; that would save
> having to write an NNTP client. Not that that's difficult, it's
> just already done.

Sure.

> > This client would access the newsgroup(s) that carry the data for   
> > an individual's system, download the headers, figure out which ones 
> > carry useful data (the subject lines would have to carry highly     
> > structured summary data),                                           
>
> Not just the subject line. Usenet Article Format already has useful
> headers such as:
>
> References (for threading) Supersedes (for changes to existing info)
> Expires From Distribution (geographical or system specifiers) Keywords
> (I don't know, but I expect it could be useful.)

I believe his point was "don't even download message bodies unless the
headers convince you our servent wrote them."

Cheers,
-- jra
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