[Noffle-users] noffle: want some servers post-only, some read-only

[Dan J. <ji...@dm...>]

Package: noffle
Version: 1.0.1-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

1. good news, noffle-users can be read on gmane.network.noffle.user on
   gmane.org

2. This part of the configuration file is too inflexible,

   # Remote news server. Format: <hostname>[:<port>] [<user> <pass>]
   # (<user> and <pass> only for servers with authentication,
   # the password may not contain white-spaces)

I have some servers that I use only for posting, others only for reading!
Also, of the posting ones, one hopes the message can be either just
posted to the first successful connection, or, if the user prefers,
posted to each connection. (speed vs. propagation)

Upon first look, maybe the ordering of the servers in the config file
matters, and maybe any hoodwinking I need to do could be achieved thru
symlinks in /var/spool/noffle/outgoing/ maybe... maybe not.

P.S. maybe some 'newsq' type command should be provided.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages noffle depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.10     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim [mail-transport-agent]   3.36-3     An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii  libc6                         2.3.1-9    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgdbmg1                     1.7.3-27.1 GNU dbm database routines (runtime

-- debconf information:
* noffle/server: news.sinica.edu.tw
* noffle/fetchmode: via dialup
* noffle/default-expire: 9999999
* noffle/maxfetch: 300
  noffle/port: 119