Hugo Embrechts wrote: > > OK, I understand. > > So you only notice the problem of missing articles if you read a group > that you have not read for a long time (or not at all) ? Otherwise > you only see the new (recent) xover lines. No, you only have to be away for just a bit longer than the time it takes to expire an article on the remote news server. For some groups and some servers, this means 1 day :) > > The current caching of listgroup works just fine. What needs to be > > implemented is the deletion of xover and article files with the > > benefit of the output of listgroup. > > xover files each contain up to 512 xover lines each. So you would have > to edit the files deleting lines out of them. Or otherwise leave the > xover files as they are and only filter the output of the xover > commands. I think we only need to do this if we notice that the listgroup info has changed. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
