Duncan Sinclair wrote:
>
> Will nntpc know to put in the full "Xref: " before the header, complete
> with a correct node name? Also, for newsreaders looking for it, will
> nntpc put "Xref:full" in its "list overview.fmt"?
Yes and no. I haven't come across a situation where the newsreader would act
differently on 'Xref:full' compared to 'Xref'.
> A quick grep over the source suggests that nntpc doesn't recognise "full"
> and so won't handle it differently. It also seems that it has no way
> to store and output the "full" part of the overview.fmt info.
Right.
> The only comment I can find in the source is that nntpcache does not
> handle crossposted xovers for disk performance reasons - I don't understand
> this. Can't it just treat xref info like other xover data (modulo the
> changes required for consistency)? I'm not expecting it to record the
I don't understand, its Xref line should always be the same as the one
obtained from the remote server.
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