• Re: Archive Any And All Text Usenet

    From Schlomo Goldberg@schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com to news.admin.peering,news.software.nntp on Fri Oct 11 00:03:53 2024
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nntp

    immibis <news@immibis.com> writes:

    On 9/03/24 19:01, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    [snip] I wonder how to define an
    "archive any and all text usenet", AAATU,
    filesystem convention, as a sort of "Library
    Filesystem Format", LFF.
    The idea is that each "message", "post", has an ID,
    then as far as that's good, that each group
    in the hierarchy has a name, and that, each
    message has a date.-a Then, the idea is to
    make an LFF, that makes a folder for a group,
    for a date, each its messages.
    a.b.c/YYYY/MMDD/HHMM/

    A filesystem is not a good match for all possible problems. Have you considered an SQL database, which IS a good match for a large number
    of problems?

    Or NoSQL. Actually, if you think about it, NNTP server is kind of a
    front for a NoSQL database. You can request a "key" (Message-ID), you
    can list "keys" in a "bucket" (newsgroup), you can do some simple search
    (XHDR, XPAT), etc.
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