Re: Downloading messages

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Mario Steele wrote:
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > 
> > Some people have Internet connections where they pay by the minute, 
> > or have a monthly time limit. Those people don't like to read 
> > EUforum while connected, but in some cases they can't use 
> > Topica either, due to spam filtering or some other silly problem.
> > 
> > It might be helpful for these people to know that all
> > messages for the current month are stored in:
> > 
> >   <a
> >   href="http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/current.txt">http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/current.txt</a>
> > 
> > Right now it's around 300K. It gets updated immediately
> > when a new message is posted.
> > 
> > Previous months are stored as:
> >    YYYYMM.TXT
> > 
> > e.g. April 2005 is stored as
> >    <a
> >    href="http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/200504.TXT">http://www.listfilter.com/mlist/200504.TXT</a>
> 
> Thanks Rob, this should make things easier for people.  And to add another
> level
> of simplistic views to it, I'm currently working on a Front End GUI, with
> wxEuphoria,
> to download the Messages, and display them in a GUI Format.  I've got all the
> base
> parsing, and ideals down for it.  It will, as many may want, have Threading
> abilities
> in it.
> 
> Meaning, that messages such as this, will come up looking like this in a Tree
> View:
> [-] Downloading Messages
>     Robert Craig (May 17 4:47)
>     Mario Steele (May 18 6:02)
> 
> Etc Etc.
> 
> Any suggestions, ideas, and what nots, are much appreciated.  Also, Rob, would
> it be possible to setup a CGI Script that'll take the User's Name, Password,
> and post information all at the same time?  Cause I might also incorperate a
> posting ability through the Web Forum into the program itself.

I'm not sure how much work that would be.
I'd have to discuss it with Junko.
I guess if a lot of people wanted to use your system,
I could spare some time.

Thanks,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com

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