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[svn] * client.c, client.h, common.h, config.c, config.h, content.c, content.h, control.c, control.h, database.c, database.h, dynamicstring.c, dynamicstring.h, fetch.c, fetch.h, fetchlist.c, fetchlist.h, group.c, group.h, itemlist.c, itemlist.h, lock.c, lock.h, log.c, log.h, noffle.c, online.c, online.h, outgoing.c, outgoing.h, over.c, over.h, post.c, post.h, protocol.c, protocol.h, pseudo.c, pseudo.h, request.c, request.h, server.c, server.h, util.c, util.h, wildmat.c, wildmat.h: Moved files to the subdirectory src/ * Makefile.am, acconfig.h, configure.in, docs/Makefile.am, src/Makefile.am, Makefile.in, aclocal.m4, config.h.in, configure, install-sh, missing, mkinstalldirs, stamp-h.in, docs/Makefile.in, src/Makefile.in: Added files. They are used by aclocal, autoheader, autoconf and automake. * src/config.c, src/config.h: Renamed to configfile.c and configfile.h, because configure will generate a config.h file itself. * src/client.c, src/content.c, src/database.c, src/fetch.c, src/fetchlist.c, src/group.c, src/lock.c, src/noffle.c, src/online.c, src/outgoing.c, src/over.c, src/pseudo.c, src/request.c, src/server.c, src/util.c: Changed '#include "config.h"' to '#include "configfile.h"'. * src/client.c, src/content.c, src/database.c, src/fetch.c, src/fetchlist.c, src/group.c, src/lock.c, src/online.c, src/outgoing.c, src/post.c, src/protocol.c, src/request.c, src/server.c: Files now #include <config.h>. Added missing <stdio.h>. This removes the warnings about snprintf() not being declared. * Makefile: Removed. This is now generated by configure.
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date Fri, 05 May 2000 22:45:56 +0100 (2000-05-05)
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1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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2 NOFFLE Todolist
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3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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5 Urgent
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6 ------
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8 * Has Client_connect resource leaks if it fails?
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11 Later
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12 -----
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14 * Add "hostname" config option for setting the FQHN in generated message IDs.
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16 * Implement expiring by groups. There are some people requesting it and
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17 it is useful.
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19 * Move some text from noffle.1 to noffle.conf.5
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21 * Read timeout when running as server and automatically close if client
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22 does not send data for a longer time.
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24 * Implement simple filter using popen or fifos.
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26 * Make compatible to latest NNTP draft.
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28 * Improve speed of online mode: Keep connection to server open for a while
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30 * Check all in
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31 http://mars.superlink.net/user/tal/writings/news-software-authors.html
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32 (Use NOV library? Use inews for validating posted articles? ... )
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34 * Store requested articles by group + number. This would allow to create
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35 pseudo-groups (like <groupname>.requested) that contained only fully
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36 downloaded articles in overview mode (very nice and clever
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37 idea sent in by a user, it would make using overview mode much easier).
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38 Second advantage: Noffle would work with servers that have retrieving
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39 articles by message-id disabled.
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41 * Expire should clean up empty request/outgoing directories, so they will not
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42 exists forever after a server change.
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44 * Do not log program abortion due to SIGINT, if no inconsistency can occur,
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45 (e.g. when calling 'noffle -d' to a pipe and next program terminates or
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46 pressing ^C).
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48 * Improve www page and documentation.
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50 * Keeping the content list for several lock/unlock times could lead to
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51 inconsistent results, because content list is maybe modified by
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52 pseudo articles. Check this!
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54 * Optimize NEWGROUPS (extra list?)
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56 * Add noffle query option for checking all groups, if they are still
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57 available at the remote server(s) and delete them otherwise.
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59 * In online mode, retrieve full article header from remote server if client
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60 sends a HEAD command. Presently, only the header lines from the overview
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61 are returned and the article is only retrieved on an ARTICLE or BODY command.
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62 The reason for this was that some readers (like pine) retrieve the group
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63 overview by sending lots of HEAD commands and their performance would badly
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64 suffer. On the other hand, some readers (like slrn) cache the header from
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65 a HEAD command, even if a following ARTICLE command gets more header lines,
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66 so that not all header lines are available when reading news in online mode,
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67 before the next start of the reader. But some header lines (e.g. Reply-To)
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69 Maybe make the behaviour configurable.
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72 Some day far away
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73 -----------------
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75 * Understand supersedes header (useful for reading news.answers group)
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77 * Get and execute cancel messages (read control.cancel, but use xpat to get
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78 only cancels for groups in fetchlist). Seems to be expensive (20000 headers
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79 a day, takes the remote server to search through)
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