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Re: crossposting

From	"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject	Re: crossposting
Date	2024-07-05 15:28 +0200
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On 2024-07-05 14:36, Big Al wrote:
> On 7/5/24 08:06 AM, Newyana2 wrote:
>> On 7/4/2024 11:11 PM, sticks wrote:
>>
>>> It's not a minor bug.  Jörg commented on this in article 
>>> <soqt4u$f9b$2@dont-email.me> and this is the relevant factor causing 
>>> the difficulty:  "So you want to mark something read in a different news
>>> group? Well, the folder per news groups doesn't lend itself to this."
>>>
>>
>>    I don't buy it. That's just making excuses. The software should
>> do the job well. If they'd stop rushing new versions out the door
>> for no good reason then maybe they'd have time to actually clean
>> up the code. (Culling and documenting prefs wouldn't hurt, either.)
>> And maybe someone in charge to actually make those things happen.
>>
>>     OE had this in 1998. It didn't take 100 versions to get there.
>>   And it worked fine on old computers running 300 MHz
>> Celerons with 64 MB RAM. Whenever a newsgroup is loaded,
>> it has to sort which messages are marked as read. The only
>> additional action needed is to cross-reference a master list,
>> which would presumably be generated as groups are loaded.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> If the message ID were the same in every group, seems like a table of 
> message IDs and the read status would be a simple lookup.   Of course 
> what do I know.

That needs a largish database on disk with some kind of ram cache, with 
very fast read operation, and nearly as fast write operation.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.

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  Re: crossposting Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-07-04 19:10 +0100
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      Re: crossposting Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-07-04 22:34 -0400
        Re: crossposting sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2024-07-04 22:11 -0500
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          Re: crossposting Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-07-05 08:06 -0400
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                Re: crossposting Big Al <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-07-05 10:12 -0400
                Re: crossposting Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-07-07 09:15 -0700
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            Re: crossposting "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org> - 2024-07-06 00:41 +1000
            Re: crossposting Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-07-06 08:52 -0400
              Re: crossposting Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-07-06 09:17 -0400
                Re: crossposting Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-07-07 09:17 -0700
        Re: crossposting Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2024-07-07 07:42 +0200
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            Re: crossposting Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2024-07-07 07:26 -0400
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      Re: crossposting Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2024-07-07 09:11 -0700
        Re: crossposting Big Al <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-07-07 12:34 -0400
          Re: crossposting "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-07-07 20:15 +0200

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