RE: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews Problem

["Jeff Grossman" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.

- fetchnews -f reset the low and high water mark to 1

That was the one that must have bit me.  Thanks again for the patch.

Jeff

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Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joerg Dietrich [mailto:joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:46 PM
> To: leafnode-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [leafnode-list] Fetchnews Problem
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:59:12PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> > What is the bug?  Lets make sure Cornelius knows about it, so 
> he can get it
> > in 1.9.12.
> 
> Rest assured, he knows about it. It's probably the main reason
> for 1.9.12. 
> 
> The problems were the following:
> 
> - fetchnews -f entered every group as new in the groupinfo file
> - fetchnews -f reset the low and high water mark to 1
> - nntpd didn't honor the optional GMT in the NEWGROUPS command.
>   It still doesn't recognize 'gmt' or mixed case. It would be
>   handy to have something like a 
>   strcasestr( const char * haystack, const char * needle ), but 
>   it obviously doesn't exist. I know, it's easy to write, but 
>   this patch was intended to be a quick fix for a user having 
>   problems with slrn. Anyway, all clients I know send only upper 
>   case commands, so it's probably not a real problem, though a 
>   violation of the RFCs.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Jo:rg
> 
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