Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.202944.7348@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <27839439.1746@ics.uci.edu> <1991Jan3.214226.9184@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jan4.115409.741@robobar.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 91 20:29:44 GMT

In article <1991Jan4.115409.741@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>> I'm not sure what the solution to this is, but contorting *every* program
>> a user might invoke that might have to modify a big database is not it.
>
>One simple fix which I'd like for other reasons (but haven't actually
>bothered to implement ... sorry) would be to make inews call newsspool
>instead of relaynews wouldn't it ? ...

This is under discussion for other reasons, actually.  However, as far as
I'm concerned, if it helps with this issue, that is strictly accidental.
I balk at massive contortions in our code to work around system bugs
like this.
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