Xref: utzoo news.software.nntp:1171 news.software.nn:1696 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!bcm!tmc.edu!sob From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.nn Subject: Re: Having nntp 1.5.11 troubles... Message-ID: <4467@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 00:43:16 GMT References: <1991Mar6.023712.26709@cica.indiana.edu> <1991Mar6.195636.2408@boingo.med.jhu.edu> Sender: usenet@bcm.tmc.edu Followup-To: news.software.nntp Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: tmc.edu In article <1991Mar6.195636.2408@boingo.med.jhu.edu> dave@boingo.med.jhu.edu (David Heath) writes: >Actually, this sounds like a problem with nntp. It has a hard-coded limit >of 4096 articles/group. When nnmaster tries to enter a group with more than >4096 articles (like junk on some systems), the remote nntpserver dies and >breaks the connection. This is incorrect in two respects: 1. NNTP prior to 1.5.11 had a user-setable limit of the number of articles per group. The default was 4096. There is nothing in the code that kept it from being larger. Most people just didn't reset the size. 2. NNTP 1.5.11 has a feature to remove this limit altogether. It is kinda beta since we didn't have a chance to test it throughly, but no one has sent nntp@tmc.edu mail saying it didn't work. -- Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Director, Networking Olan uucp: {rutgers,mailrus}!bcm!sob and Systems Support Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine