Re: [Noffle-users] X-NOFFLE-Status not filled until article read

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

On 03-Nov-2004 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Ugg, for some groups, noffle does not fill in X-NOFFLE-Status until
> the article's body has been read.
> 
> $ telnet localhost nntp
> 200 NNTP server NOFFLE 1.1.5
> GROUP gmane.comp.gis.freegis
> 211 714 1 714 gmane.comp.gis.freegis selected
> HEAD 685
> X-NOFFLE-Status:
> X-NOFFLE-LastAccess: 2004-10-24 03:35:00
> article 685
> X-NOFFLE-Status: INTERESTING
> X-NOFFLE-LastAccess: 2004-11-03 08:43:34
> HEAD 685
> X-NOFFLE-Status: INTERESTING
> X-NOFFLE-LastAccess: 2004-11-03 08:43:34

You're right. A HEAD doesn't flag an article as interesting - you have to read
the body for that to be true.

I think the reason for this is the possibility that a newsreader uses HEAD to
read the various article headers required to show the article presence. If that
were to happen, all articles in a group would be marked interesting and
subsequently downloaded. trn, a most venerable newsreader to which I am still
addicted, does a HEAD on the first unread article in a group befoe issuing a
succession of XHDR and XOVER; I suspect possibly it is verifying that Xref
headers are present.

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Jim Hague - jim...@ac...          Never trust a computer you can't lift.