Re: I've improved news support - is anyone interested?

Maciej Puzio writes:
> Hi
> 
> Recently I noted that the library doesn't have a good News support. Especiall
 y 
> presenting message and newsgroup lists to the user isn't handled very well. 
> So... I have added some of the lacking features to my copy of the library. 
> These include:
> 
> - presenting message reference threads as nested lists
> - hierarchical presentation of newsgroups within "* sets" (e.g. soc.* include
 s
> soc.culture.*, which in turn includes soc.culture.hongkong)
> - simple memory newsgroup list cache, capable of handling one host at a time
> - improved HTParseTime function, to deal with variety of date formats used in
  message lists
> - corrected many errors and bugs in HTNDir.c and HTNewsLs.c

This is great! I am _very_ interested. Yes - the News module never got 
finished... Have you also implemented news posting? If you have some patches 
then I can put them up on our server.

Thanks!


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Received on Thursday, 28 March 1996 10:44:22 UTC