ietf-nntp LIST ACTIVE issues
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Mon Mar 24 10:05:25 PST 2003
Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
>> A mode of n means that messages from peers are accepted as normal, but
>> messages posted by local readers are rejected.
> Yes, but what is the definition of "peers" and "local"?
The conventional and normal NNTP interpretations of those terms. I don't
understand what you're asking.
> ITYM that, under 'n', articles arriving via IHAVE are accepted, but
> articles arriving via POST are not (alternatively, articles are not
> accepted under mode READER).
Yes, except that articles arriving via the nnrpd version of IHAVE are
rejected. A better way to put this in INN terms is that articles arriving
via innd are accepted and articles arriving via nnrpd are not.
>> A mode of m means that messages from peers are accepted iff they
>> contain an Approved header, and local messages are forwarded to the
>> moderator.
> No, I don't think that is right. Why do "peers" and "local" come into
> it? Surely if Approved is present it is accepted regardless, whether
> from IHAVE or POST.
Right. Sorry, that was sloppy wording on my part.
> But if Approved is absent, then articles from IHAVE are silently
> dropped, and those from POST are sent to the moderator. At least, that
> is what Usefor says.
Correct.
> But that doesn't sound right to me. If an article is crossposted to
> comp.a and comp.b, and comp.a is 'y' and comp.b is 'x', then I would
> expect it to be stored under comp.a, but not under comp.b. At least, I
> think that is what CNews does.
Huh. You're right. That isn't how I thought it worked, but looking at it
in more detail, you appear to be correct about what's going on.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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