Re: feature request: split --fetch to --post-queued --fetch-overview --fetch-selected-bodies

Miernik wrote:
[..fetch less, fetch faster..]
> I think that would be very simple for someone who knows Noffle 
> internals.

Please look at noffle/src/noffle.c, at the procedures doFetch()
and main(). It is _very_ easy to implement, indeed.

Just copy doFetch() and delete some of the 'connOk = connOk &&'-lines.
The command line options will be parsed using a switch()-case-structure
in the main()-procedure. It's easy to insert a new option.


However, I'm not convinced that such a patch is actually useful. This
way, you can't avoid downloading the overviews, you'll just delay it.


What do you think about a fetch mode that does actually avoid
downloading overviews of new articles? You won't be able to filter
articles and you won't get articles from groups that have been
subscribed in 'over' or in 'thread' mode.

Instead of getting overviews with 'XOVER number-number', noffle sends
'XHDR Message-Id number-number' to find out the Message-Ids of the new
articles. That's still a waste of bandwidth, but I suppose it's a bit
more efficient than getting the whole overviews.


Well, if noffle was able to download articles by number instead of by
Msg-Id, the aforementioned 'XOVER' could be skipped without the
replacement 'XHDR Message-Id'. That would be even faster. But it's a
lot of work to code this, and there are some problems without trivial
solutions. Avoiding multiple download of crossposts, for example.


regards,

Mirko


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