Re: [leafnode-list] [leafnode-2.0.0.alpha] `fetchnews -P' leaves

[Andy Piper <andy.piper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:25, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Andy Piper wrote on Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:05:56PM CET:
> > Hmm. This is going to cause some fun for Leafwa then. It allows a user
> > (or more precisely, an administrator) to view and edit messages in the
> > out.going spool. 
> Does not sound like a very good idea to change articles there,
> because it causes locking problems.  For current leafnode-2, only
> whole articles ready for sending should reside in out.going (use
> temp.files as intermediate).  Leafnode-1.9 chmod-style "locking"
> would be broken by this as well.

Actually it seems to work well with 1.9.x at the moment. I've not moved
to Leafnode 2 yet but it seems clear from this discussion that the
functionality would be flawed in that case.

> Interested question:  why do you want to change articles there?
> Why not use supersedes?  AFAICS they work just fine with leafnode-2,
> when the article to be superseded sits in out.going.

Well the reason it is implemented in my current Leafwa alpha at the
moment is "because it was there before". I guess with 1.9.x it is more
useful since supersedes has to happen upstream (I think?). I've actually
found this a useful feature for making tiny changes to articles before
Leafnode gets a chance to propagate them to the ISP NNTP server, but
maybe you're right.

This leads into a wider discussion, not for this thread, which is
essentially "what should Leafwa allow an administrator to do"? I'll save
that for another time and place.

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Andy Piper - Farnborough, Hampshire (UK)
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