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Handle Rejected Postings

Ian Timms (itimms@ibm.net) wrote:

I'd prefer to see this as a configurable option, ie.

  1. reject posting in manner currently done in 9n leaving the post in the spool dir (default),
  2. reject and email posting back to submitter (cleaning out spool dir entry,
  3. just requeue to send next time round,
  4. requeue to send next time around along with an email to the submitter that this is being done then once 5 such requeues have been done reject the post and email it back and clear the spool entry.

Removing Complete Groups - Expire With Zero Days

Sobald Expire in der Lage ist, X-Links zu moven, koennten Gruppen mit 
Expire -e0 <grouplist>
entfernt werden.

Optional Maxtime Expiration Control

Je nach Newsgroup kann es sinnvoll sein, abgelaufene Artikel eine Mindestzeit festzuhalten, oder auch nicht.

Brian P. Hampson (brian@asl3.asl-labs.bc.ca) wrote:

A case in point, bc.weather had regular postings, discussing the upcoming three days forecast...After the last date in the forecast, the posting was obsolete, and it would be nice to have expired it, as its expire header indicated.

Chanx Should Provide More Infos About Rejected Posts

However, I presume Chanx knows what article it's trying to send. If it's not deleted and a little more info is reported I could find the article and add white space or something. The filename where it's stored would be terrific.

Rnews Option -v

Adding a -v option to rnews to present a count along the lines of the expire -v.

Multithreaded Rnews

Rnews is slow.

Singlethreaded Chanx

For servers not allowing more than one connection.

Tool, um gejunkte Artikel nochmal zu tossen

Moving UWANT to Article retrieval threads

Modifing changi/chanx to use UWANT is a good idea. It should not cost you any time even if its slower. Just put the UWANT requests in the threads requesting ids from the remote server...

IMAP Unterstuetzung

On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Stan Barber wrote:

> I wonder if I should spend the time to convert rn to use IMAP. Or, perhaps
> that is already done and I am just unaware of it. Please let me know.

Stan,
I personally believe that converting rn would be a terrific idea. I do think that the world would be a better place if we could focus on IMAP as the message access protocol of choice, and focus on NNTP as a server-to-server distribution protocol. The UW IMAP toolkit might be a good starting place for the project.

Brian Kantor replied:

Stan, I think we should continue the NNTP effort. If some other protocol should become more popular for reading news, whether because of its technical merit or for more prosaic reasons, that does not negate the effort. I see no reason why there cannot be many mansions in one house; the more there are to choose from [as they say about standards] the more likely people are to find one that suits them best.

I have no problem with an IMAP news reader service living on one port, an NNRP news reader service on another, and so on. Clients will connect appropriately.

Programm zum (de)kodieren von Seconds Since Epoch

control.ctl and checkgroups

Alistair wrote:

Could you implement something along the lines of the control.ctl file in INN, so that invalid newgroups/rmgroups for various hierarchies could be dropped before making it to the .cmd files? (I don't carry alt.*, so I edit out dozens of the blasted things every day). Handling checkgroups messages would also be very nice.

Feed Chanx With a List

Ed Tomlinson wrote:

I want to be able to feed chanx a list of file in format like the nntp.drop file from sysin and have chanx use multiple threads to gather the ids. This way my xover program gets much simpler (and I will be able to release code quickly).