Re: [Noffle-devel] [ noffle-Bugs-578253 ] auto-subscribe broken

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

On 08-Jul-2002 Mirko Liss wrote:
> This happens if noffle is online and no article or pseudo
> exists. It's a SNAFU:
> 
> The group will be auto-subscribed after the first article have been
> read. But no pseudo will be generated in online mode.

If you're in online mode, then the group won't be auto-subscribed. See
noteInterest() in server.c. This is also what the docs claim. So Noffle just
becomes a caching server a la Newscache.

Hence there is no need for a pseudo-message either.

The real problem (I think) is with the instructions in INSTALL that tell you to
add 'noffle --online' to ip-up and 'noffle --offline' to ip-down. They don't
tell you what this does. Furthermore, entering online mode while dialled in
isn't necessary and furthermore changes the behaviour of Noffle in a
potentially confusing way.

I suggest I modify the INSTALL instructions to remove the online mode stuff and
redo the README to move the references to online mode into its own section to
emphasise the changed behaviour.

Comments?

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