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From: hull@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu (David Hull)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: C News vs nntpxmit in nntp 1.5.11
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Date: 18 Mar 91 08:03:54 GMT
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I recently installed the latest patches to nntp and found that the latest
version of nntpxmit expects the queue file to contain both the filename
and the message-id of the article to be sent.  This corresponds to the
'n' flag in C News's sys file, not 'F' as documented.  If the incorrect
file format is used, no error is emitted and the queue file is silently
thrown away.

While the savings in overhead of not opening the article if the remote
site already has it is nice, I don't think that stock B News can create
a queue file in the format necessary.  What would be really nice is a
nntpxmit which would read the article for the message-id only if it
wasn't in the queue file.

-David Hull