Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!coolidge From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Lots of dups Summary: It's in there... Message-ID: <1989Oct28.054059.5030@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Oct 89 05:40:59 GMT References: <1989Oct25.164024.14894@ctr.columbia.edu> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu Organization: U of Illinois, CS Dept., Systems Research Group Lines: 22 flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Rick Adams writes: >> Wouldn't having nntpd keep a history file of the articles it had >> accepted that day give you both ? >Yes, except you need a "maybe-I-have" NNTP response, if you want >reliable article transmission. "Maybe-I-have" means you should try >offering the article to me later, and see what I say. It's in the NNTP spec, more or less. Just use NNTP response code 436 (transfer failed - try again later). It's not entirely the truth, but it does achieve the same result. On the other hand, I'm not at all sure that anything actually implements this feature... --John -------------------------------------------------------------------------- John L. Coolidge Internet:coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP:uiucdcs!coolidge Of course I don't speak for the U of I (or anyone else except myself) Copyright 1989 John L. Coolidge. Copying allowed if (and only if) attributed. You may redistribute this article if and only if your recipients may as well.