Re: noffle: want some servers post-only, some rea

On 28-Jan-2003 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 2. This part of the configuration file is too inflexible,
> 
>    # Remote news server. Format: <hostname>[:<port>] [<user> <pass>]
>    # (<user> and <pass> only for servers with authentication,
>    # the password may not contain white-spaces)
> 
> I have some servers that I use only for posting, others only for reading!
> Also, of the posting ones, one hopes the message can be either just
> posted to the first successful connection, or, if the user prefers,
> posted to each connection. (speed vs. propagation)

Currently Noffle won't work in the way you want. Internally it will only get
news for a particular group from one server, and will only post news to that
group to the server from which it gets the group. In the case of crossposted
articles, it will post once to each server which supplies a group in the list
of those posted to.

I have notions of moving Noffle in the direction you want, where all groups are
retrieved from all servers that hold them.

In this case, what should happen to posts to moderated groups? If you post to
every server that carries that group, will the moderator be bombarded with
multiple copies of the post, and if so does it matter?

> P.S. maybe some 'newsq' type command should be provided.

Yes, this should be trivial to do - have to be an admin-only command. I'll take
a look.

-- 
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