- From: Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:48:48 -0500 (CDT)
- To: danny@miriworld.its.unimelb.edu.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
- Cc: peter@nmti.com, isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us, benjamin@hanover.demon.co.uk, brogers@integctr.com, firewalls@greatcircle.com, www-proxy@w3.org
> > > Its on my wish list. I don't think it will make it to the *do* list, > > > other than maybe hacking CERN proxy server to cache news articles. > > > I remember Ari said caching news was bad, but I never understood why, > > Control: cancel <some-id@some-site> > > Supercedes: <another-id@another-site> > Both of which can be handled by appropriate use of a GET If-modified-since > type pragma in the caching algorithm. You'll have to explain this more. Articles aren't modified. They're created and deleted. Those are the only operations you can perform on a news spool.
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