I was thinking of having a mapping file, so that people could decide on their
own what levels they wanted. Something like:
B business
N news
A usa
C world
I world
??B business
??E editorial
??H headlines
would mean any category starting with B would be put in xpress.business,
things starting with NA would be put in xpress.news.usa, things starting
with N??B would be put in xpress.news.business, etc. A new indentation
level means the current group is a subgroup of the last group at the
previous indentation level, and also determines which part of the category
tag gets matched.
There could also be a "junk" tag so that any article in that category would
be immediately junked and not sent to netnews.
A complete list of categories can be obtained from the existing client
software (all that I've seen allows you to display the category of the
current article), and we can supply a fully categorized list with the
software, which the user can cut down to size.
>I received some other code that I'll make available soon which
>... has the proper copyright attribution stuff.
I have to wonder where the copyright attributions came from...
My eventual target platform is a VMS VAX. It'll be interesting to see how
portable this code is.
The way that x.c handles stock quotes isn't really ideal for a multi-user
system -- it works for the case where one person is interested in a certain
number of stocks, but degenerates when an arbitrary number of people are
interested in an arbitrary number of stocks. Netnews is clearly not the
right forum for this kind of information. Should we write stockd, the stock
quote daemon?...
Bill
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