Subj : fido in sync with multiple devices
To : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Apr 09 2019 12:37 pm
On 2019 Apr 08 19:43:00, you wrote to Tony Langdon:
AA>>> The closest thing that works for me is using the nntp approach..
TL>> Prblem with NNTP is that all of its subscription and last read
TL>> information is kept on the client side, so moving between devices
TL>> becomes problematic.
AA> Exactly. That's where the future in FUTURE4FIDO comes in. <g>
not only for FTNs with your suggestion below...
AA> Maybe if Jamnntp could be enhanced with a sync-packet exchange during
AA> the process, then it wouldn't matter on which device you're querying
AA> the server. BUT, you would have to keep a copy of the sync-packet
AA> with you or somewhere in the cloud.(?)
no news client does this so a custom news client would have to be written and
used... no more using t-bird or similar...
)\/(ark
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