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

[Mirko L. <mir...@we...>]

Jim Hague wrote:

> 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.

That's great.

> Comments?

Please add a note about another issue:

Even in online mode, you can't refetch articles that have been expired
or that were posted to newsgroups both unknown and unsubscribed.
ARTICLE <msgid> won't be passed to an upstream server if the msgid isn't
available at the local site (neither the full article nor just the
overview).

I can't decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Reconstruction of
a thread ( eg via slrn keyboard shortcut 'ESC 1 ESP p') would be much
slower if noffle passed a lot of single requests to upstream servers.


Friendly regards,

Mirko