[plug] New PLUG news server

Bernd Felsche bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
Wed Sep 29 19:07:33 WST 2004


Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> writes:
>James Devenish wrote:

>> Should we create a new newsgroup to discuss the news server,
>> or take this to plug.test?? Can we cross-post ;-)

>Hmph.  Not yet.  I'm going to experiment with cancelling news posts and
>see if I can get the newspost script to:

> - strip Message-IDs if leafnode thinks they're a problem
> - if leafnode complains about duplicate messages, cancel the original 
>   post and post the message again with the new list appended to the
>   Newsgroups: headers

Supersedes is designed to "replace" articles.

> - possibly do other stuff (I'll look through nntpd.c and see what else
>   leafnode might potentially complain about :-P)

>> I wonder if Mailman can do any Message-ID filtering. If Mailman were
>> to replace the problematic Message-IDs, that would uniformly and
>> simultaneously solve the problem for both the mailing list and the
>> newsgroups, if I understand your processes correctly.

>That's also my understanding.  But you're the mailman guru ;-)

mailman is the "moderator".
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