Re: Creating soup packets
From: Arnoud (galactus@stack.nl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:45:06 +0200
In article <1HfzzYhtjPTc092yn@mozart.inet.co.th>,
brianj@mozart.inet.co.th (Brian Jackson) wrote:
> In article <MCQzz4uYOVKU089yn@stack.nl>,
> galactus@stack.nl (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet) wrote:
> >Yes. In an ideal situation, your news downloading program would ask
> >the server what new articles it has in a group, by message-ID,
> >and then ask for only the new articles that it doesn't have. Unfortunately
> >this only works for server-to-server news transport, and ISPs rarely
> >offer their users this capability.
>
> Is it even possible for ISPs to offer this capability, and what would
> be involved?
Basically, you need to run your own news *server* (INN, usually)
and then get your ISP to "peer" with you. However, this does not
allow for filtering before downloading news, since you're then
communicating on the "Hey, I have an article, want it?" "Yeah sure,
send it" level.
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