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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: rn/rrn patchlevels, etc.
Message-ID: <54.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 9 Oct 89 00:36:30 GMT
References: <47.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
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In article <47.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> I wrote:
>I have been working on some patches to rrn.  The base version of rrn that I'm
>working from claims to be rn patchlevel 40, with the rrn patches applied to it.
>What is rn patch 40?  All the ftp sites seem to have rn patchlevel 39.  [...]

I received exactly one reply on this, pointing me to decwrl, jpl-devvax and one
other site, to get PL 41.  So far so good...

>The patches I'm working on improve rrn's use of NNTP, improving both user
>speed and network bandwidth requirements.  I would like to know how to
>dispose of them when they are complete -- send to comp.sources.unix, Larry
>Wall, whoever the current Keeper of NNTP is, or what?  Someone please mail
>me some guidance on this.

Apparently NOBODY has anything to say on this.  Is rrn considered completely
dead in light of nn?  Does nobody care about local net bandwidth?  How about
the occasional >remote< rrn user?

>[I thought I heard of a patch for this, but can't find it: if you join a
>group which has a large gap between a single "Expires" article and the next
>real article, rrn skips the entire group.  We had an rrn that didn't do
>this, but the source was lost.  The NNTP stream makes it seem that rrn tries
>several HEAD commands and gives up when they fail.  WHERE can I find a patch
>for this, or any other patches to the original rn->rrn diffs?]

Nothing at all on this, either.  Would one of the news "gurus" at least mail
me that they >DON'T< know so that I can give up gracefully?

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