Toivo Pedaste wrote: > > I've been trying out the latest version of nntpcache (running on Linux) > using nn and have noticed some problems. > > 1) If you go into a nes group nn will request the xover for any > new articles, this fetched from the server OK, if you then request > all the articles in the group you will only get the articles in > the xover cache in nntpcache not the full list from the server. > This is bad (and non transparent). > > 2) If the nntpcache copy of the active file has been updated since you last > read the group nn will do an xover request for the new articles, nntpcache > will reply with the info in its xover cache, which is none, nn will then > think the articles are expired and mark them as read. This is a very > bad result indeed. These should be fixed with my patch ftp://greathan.apana.org.au/pub/nntpcache/nntpcache-0.92.8UL.patch Please try it but don't forget to get rid of your existing xover files first. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@greathan.apana.org.au> { http://greathan.apana.org.au/~herbert/ } PGP Key: pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu or any other key sites
