Re: how to make noffle NOT switch to offline mode on "Server connection failed or newsbase problem. Leaving online mode."?

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:14:31PM +0100, Mirko Liss wrote:
> I haven't used tin in ages, so I don't know if it can score articles.
> My newsreader scores articles according to the value of the status line.
> Noffle adds a status header line to each article, called
> 'X-NOFFLE-Status:'. It's values are 'INTERESTING', 'NOT_DOWNLOADED',
> 'RETRIEVING_FAILED' or any combination, including an empty value.

Unfortunately tin cannot yet score on arbitrary headers (it's on the
TODO list). Which newsreader are you using?
 
> I don't think it's desirable to store the fully downloaded article under
> a new number within the group, because that would break newsreaders that
> are selecting articles by their Message-Id.

I don't understand what you mean by "number".  Did you think of changing
the Message-ID of articles which have downloaded bodies? That would work
in tin, as it can score on Message-ID, but would break selecting
articles from tin menus indeed :( I think it would be a bad idea, as
it's good to know the original Message-ID, useful if you want to send
someone link to an article, for example a link to Google where you can
select articles by Message-ID. 

I'll look if there are some dirty patches for arbitrary headers scoring
in tin, maybe hack one myself it there aren't. Or change newsreader...

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