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Subject: Re: NNTP caching proxy
From: peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 08:48:48 -0500 (CDT)
To: danny @ miriworld . its . unimelb . EDU . AU (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Cc: peter @ nmti . com, isdmill @ gatekeeper . ddp . state . me . us, benjamin @ hanover . demon . co . uk, brogers @ integctr . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, www-proxy @ w3 . org
In-reply-to: <Pine . OSF . 3 . 91 . 950707103355 . 3539B-100000 @ miriworld . its . unimelb . EDU . AU> from "Daniel O'Callaghan" at Jul 7, 95 10:35:04 am

> > > Its on my wish list.  I don't think it will make it to the *do* list, 
> > > other than maybe hacking CERN proxy server to cache news articles.
> > > I remember Ari said caching news was bad, but I never understood why, 

> > 	Control: cancel <some-id @
 some-site>
> > 	Supercedes: <another-id @
 another-site>

> Both of which can be handled by appropriate use of a GET If-modified-since 
> type pragma in the caching algorithm.

You'll have to explain this more.

Articles aren't modified. They're created and deleted. Those are the only
operations you can perform on a news spool.


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