Re: Patches: TLS and mark_unavailable_read

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jörg Sommer <[email protected]> wrote:
> And what do you think about this patch? Is it okay for you? Do you like
> this option?
[...]
>     New option to control marking of unavailable articles
>
>     If you share the same jnewsrc with a server and a slrnpull spool of this
>     server while the later is only a subset of the server, slrn would mark
>     all articles not in the slrnpull spool as read. You can set the new
>     option mark_unavailable_read to 0 to make slrn keep articles they aren't
>     available by the server.

My concern is that enabling this option may cause the newsrc file to
grow very large due to the numerous gaps created by cancelled spam
articles.  I think that there should be a mechanism in place to limit
the number of such gaps.  For this reason, I did not apply the patch
to the latest version.

Thanks,
--John

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