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[John J]

On 12/22/2013 09:12 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 03:08:49 UTC, John J wrote:
>> Thank you! It's pretty fast now!! :)
>>
>> Btw, I have been using Thunderbird and I frequently see the already
>> read threads (mostly messages of the existing threads) suddenly appear
>> as unread (in bold). Is this happening from your end? If so can you
>> please fix it?
>>
>> It quickly gets boring to read the same messages over and over
>> thinking they are brand new.. Looks like some kind of synchronization
>> problem..
>
> ???
>
> I don't see how Thunderbird is related to the forum... Both Thunderbird
> and the forum software are newsgroup clients (they both connect to
> news.digitalmars.com to get and post articles). There is no way for the
> forum to know which messages you've marked as read, because Thunderbird
> does not upload that information to the server - it's only stored
> locally. And even if Thunderbird did upload this information to
> news.digitalmars.com, DFeed would still have to know how to ask and
> obtain that information from the server, and identify you among other
> users (which would be tricky, considering you don't need to provide any
> identifying information to download articles)...
>
> I suppose that DFeed could have its own NNTP server (similarly to what
> Vibe.news does), allow logging in with the forum username/password, and
> mark messages downloaded via NNTP as "read" in the web interface...
>
>> Searching these newsgroups in Thunderbird now works, and it works
>> pretty fast too!
>
> Again not sure how that's related...


If they are not related that's fine. thanks.