Re: [leafnode-list] Local newsgroups possible with leafnode-2.0b7 ?

[Stefan Wiens <s.wi@xxxxxxx>]

krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel) writes:

> Stefan Wiens wrote:
>
>> Wilhelm Meier <meier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > it seems to be a XOVER problem. The article now show (after enabling
>> > debug mode ?) up in the news-spool. But the reply to XOVER ist an error.
>> > So Netscape does not show the article ...
>
>> This coul be changed by setting xovergroup to NULL after group
>> selection in nntpd.c:dogroup().
>
> I think it would be even more sensible to set xovergroup to NULL after
> posting the article. The following patch for 2.0b8 does this:
[...]

This single change won't lead to consistent behaviour.

Suppose one user is reading a group while another one posts an article
into it:

After issuing a GROUP command that doesn't actually change the current
group, this user will get new active information (containing the new
article), but outdated overview information.

Stefan


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