Re: [Noffle-devel] new filter option: filter post-status=yes|no|

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 22-Nov-2001 Mirko Liss wrote:
> I added a new filter option that checks the post-status.
> Only the status of the current newsgroup will be checked.

Thanks.

> I considered handling crossposts, but that creates the
> same number of problems it solves. So I decided to keep it
> simple.

Fair enough. So at the moment the rule will only apply to the group being
downloaded - if a cross-posted group downloads it anyway, the rule is
irrelevant. We can always change its behaviour to 'apply rule if any of the
newsgroups is of this status' later if it turns out to be a good idea.

> Uh, by the way: Leftover temporary files in the overview/
> directory will be deleted if you run expireContents().

I hope you'll forgive me, but I've removed that bit. The reason is that at
present we are using opendir/readdir to iterate through the directory, and I'm
not clear on the effect on these of deleting stuff from the directory as we go.
I've redone the code in content.c to issue more a more obvious warning. We
could change the content iterator to remove this problem.

> I've looked at the USEFOR draft and I can't say I understand
> how to implement most of these things, I'm sorry.
> I'd rather add small features and fix some bugs until I've
> gotten a better understanding of the source code.
> 
> Please don't expect me to cvs-commit the required patches
> to src/post.c.

No problem. As the perpetrator of that swamp, I'd better look at tidying it
myself some time. :-)

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