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author Jim Hague <jim.hague@acm.org>
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2 NOFFLE Todolist
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5 Urgent
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8 * Deal properly with headers split over several lines where the overall
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9 content of the header exceeds MAXCHAR characters (i.e. length of Str).
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14 * Internationalisation.
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16 * Get pseudo article contents from files in /etc/noffle, to allow
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17 local customisation.
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19 * Remove groups if they disappear from the upstream servers.
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20 (Subject to setting? Only if all articles in the group are expired?)
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21 Debian bug 168401
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23 * Add command line options to add/remove message IDs to/from the article
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24 fetchlist. Debian bug 151655.
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26 * Let all commands that could accept >1 argument. Debian bug 151655.
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28 * Provide list of suggested configurations for popular upstream servers.
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30 * Review latest NNTP draft (http://www.ieft.org/ids.by.wg/nntpext.html).
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31 Noted so far: Implement DATE and OVER. OVER is a synonym for XOVER,
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32 which should continue to work for compatability reasons.
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34 * Review latest Usenet message format (draft).
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35 http://www.ietf.org/ids.by.wg/usefor.html.
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37 * Improve performance of group database. Using GDBM is a bad choice,
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38 better use a btree from the Berkeley db library in libc.
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39 This will be a good time for a redesign of the group.h interface
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40 with respect to process concurrency if the simple global locking strategy
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44 does not send data for a longer time.
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46 * Implement simple filter using popen or fifos.
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48 * Improve speed of online mode: Keep connection to server open for a while
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50 * Automatically retry NNTP transactions that fail due to lost connection/
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51 timeout up to a configurable threshold number of times before passing
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52 the failure on. This to cope with servers with short timeouts on
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53 networks with highly variable and significant latencies.
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55 * Check all in
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56 http://mars.superlink.net/user/tal/writings/news-software-authors.html
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57 (Use NOV library? Use inews for validating posted articles? ... )
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59 * Store requested articles by group + number. This would allow to create
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60 pseudo-groups (like <groupname>.requested) that contained only fully
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61 downloaded articles in overview mode (very nice and clever
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62 idea sent in by a user, it would make using overview mode much easier).
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63 Second advantage: Noffle would work with servers that have retrieving
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64 articles by message-id disabled.
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66 * Expire should clean up empty request/outgoing directories, so they will not
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69 * Do not log program abortion due to SIGINT, if no inconsistency can occur,
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70 (e.g. when calling 'noffle -d' to a pipe and next program terminates or
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71 pressing ^C).
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73 * Improve www page and documentation.
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75 * Keeping the content list for several lock/unlock times could lead to
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79 * Optimize NEWGROUPS (extra list?)
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82 available at the remote server(s) and delete them otherwise.
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85 sends a HEAD command. Presently, only the header lines from the overview
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86 are returned and the article is only retrieved on an ARTICLE or BODY command.
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87 The reason for this was that some readers (like pine) retrieve the group
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88 overview by sending lots of HEAD commands and their performance would badly
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89 suffer. On the other hand, some readers (like slrn) cache the header from
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90 a HEAD command, even if a following ARTICLE command gets more header lines,
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91 so that not all header lines are available when reading news in online mode,
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100 * Group requesting: I'd like noffle mantain a whitelist of users who can
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101 request new subscriptions: for instance, if user mardy wants noffle to
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102 fetch headers of it.comp.os.linux, he could just post a message to
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103 noffle.control with something like this in the body:
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107 Some day far away
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111 server (e.g. by subscribing to control.cancel - only fetching cancels
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112 for groups in the fetchlist would be a good idea, volume in
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