Re: Is there something about VB6 that makes it a bad choice for NNTP?

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:12:30 +0000 (UTC), DanS
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MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:59:55 +0000 (UTC), DanS
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MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:03:12 +0100, MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I owe everyone a big apology! I have been comparing apples with
oranges for the past 2 days. It suddenly dawned on me that XNews
(hint: the "X") is using XOver to get the headers. I on the other
hand
have been issuing separate HEAD commands.

I quickly modded the test app to send the XOver command with a known
range of 31,000 headers and VB6 plus Dolphin DsSocket was actually
slightly faster (by 2 secs) than XNews! XNews took 45 secs and VB6
took about 43 secs.

So I don't know what my punishment should be, but I feel like a
complete wanker, sorry!

I hope this goes some way to ameliorate the irritation some of you
may
feel on reading this. I am stepping away from the computer...
right...
NOW.

MM


What are you trying to do with NNTP ?

Several things. One thing that irritates me about XNews (there are
several!) is the way it simply removes queued items after a couple of
retries and sticks a red question mark in front. Idiotic design, in my
view, but there ya go! And then there's the newsgroups I visit daily,
like this one, or uk.legal, and others. Instead of me going to the
palaver of firing up FreeAgent, downloading new items, checking to see
whether any of the topics interest me or not, and so on, I could
automate the entire process and, since I'd have complete control over
the code, could modify it at will to suit changing needs. I'd have a
pop-up to say something like: "Newsgroup uk.legal 4 topics" and then I
could visit my download folder and read the articles. That's the
initial aim, though later I might even provide a reply feature as
well. My own mini version of FreeAgentXNewsNewsPro etc!

MM

Interesting. I use XNews also, but not too interested in automating it.

XNews is fine if one is not handling massive newsgroups. But I don't
think the author has experienced many of the problems that occur when
faced with a newsgroup containing millions of articles. The way it
"marks" stuff if you want to remove headers from the list must be some
kind of brute force sequential process, as it takes soooooo long. Then
there's the fact that you can only save headers by exiting the group!
(having remembered to flag it for saving). Yesterday, for example, I
had downloaded around thousands of headers, then XNews got a GPF. Now
I've got to download them again. If they had been saved in the
download process the GPF wouldn't have mattered.

MM
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