[leafnode-list] Re: Should touch_newsgroup touch the first or last article in the group?

[Adam Funk <adam00f@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-05-11, Adam Funk <adam00f@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2006-05-10, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:28:05PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
>>> I think that `touch_newsgroup alt.foo.bar` updates the access time of
>>> the first article in /var/spool/news/alt/foo/bar/ and that this keeps
>>> texpire from deleting old articles in that directory (unless the -f
>>> option is added).
>>
>>> Is this correct?  
>>
>> No.  touch_newsgroup connects to Leafnode via NNTP and reads the first
>> article the server offers which ought to cause Leafnode to update its
>> idea of when the group was last read.  How that's done is up to
>> Leafnode.
>
> Oops, I did read /usr/bin/touch_newsgroup, then I did some experiments
> with that command and stat, but I left the intermediate stages out of
> my description.
>
> Now I think that for leafnode "the first article the server offers" is
> the first article in the group -- is that correct?

It seems to me that it would make more sense to change the line

    my $lines = $server->article() #fetch current/first article

to 

    my $lines = $server->article($last)

so that touch_newsgroup always fetches the last article from the
group.  Is this wrong?

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