🚀 go-pugleaf

Gary Priest <gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Just for everyones info :)
> 
> Due to the heavy bombing and the fact that ICE packed up and Oasis2 lost all
> my stored news articles. I've started writing a NEWS equivalent to POPwatch.
> 
> It will allow sending/receiving of news in both NOS and Oasis2 format. So it
> can be used with Oasis1.3x or 2.
> 
> It will also have a killfile and *especially* the above idea. If you specify
> a message id (such as @kidsoft.com), then it won't request the articles at
> all. Should speed things up immensely if anything like that happens again.
> 
> I've only just started writing it, so it's not ready for release yet!!

Are you sure that it doesn't just duplicate the actions of the NOS
killfile?  It is trivial to stop NOS from fetching messages with
specific message id's.  The problem in the bombing case was the sheer
number of headers, you have to download the header in order to find out
if you want the actual article body or not, to the best of my knowledge
you can't say to the newsserver "don't send me any headers with
kidsoft.com in them" or similar.
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