🚀 go-pugleaf

"John Saunders" <john.saunders@scitec.com.au.NOSPAM> writes:

		> Justin Hawkins wrote in message ...
> >Only seriously annoying thing is the complete directory structure it
> >creates under /var/spool/news, not just the groups you read but the
> >whole lot. Yes I know that makes it easier, but it wouldn't be that
> >hard to do it otherwise I suspect. Oh well.
> 
> That's because of the crossposts. It doesn't actually create all
> the directories, it downloads the article into the message.id
> directory structure then makes a link for every group that the
> message was posted to. So even though you are fetching a single
> group, any article in that group that was crossposted will cause
> a plethora of directories to be created.

Eek! That's what I first thought, but when I saw the number of
directories there were:

[root@tardis news]# pwd 
/var/spool/news
[root@tardis news]# du | wc
   1819    3638   38322

I thought that there couldn't possibly be that many crossposted
messages.

How wrong can you be.

:-(

		- Justin

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