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annotate TODO.TXT @ 15:54f08929b195 noffle
[svn] Bring up to date
| author | enz |
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| date | Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:22:25 +0100 |
| parents | ba3bf8f65e18 |
| children | ecbb74f75e4e |
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| 2 ============================================================================= | |
| 3 Urgent | |
| 4 ============================================================================= | |
| 5 | |
| 6 Has Client_connect resource leaks if it fails? | |
| 7 | |
| 8 ============================================================================= | |
| 9 Later | |
| 10 ============================================================================= | |
| 11 | |
| 5 | 12 Implement expiring by groups. There are some people requesting it and |
| 13 it is useful. | |
| 14 | |
| 0 | 15 Move some text from noffle.1 to noffle.conf.5 |
| 16 | |
| 17 Read timeout when running as server and automatically close if client | |
| 18 does not send data for a longer time. | |
| 19 | |
| 20 Implement simple filter using popen or fifos. | |
| 21 | |
| 22 Make compatible to latest NNTP draft. | |
| 23 | |
| 15 | 24 Improve speed of online mode: Keep connection to server open for a while |
| 0 | 25 |
| 26 Check all in | |
| 27 http://mars.superlink.net/user/tal/writings/news-software-authors.html | |
| 28 (Use NOV library? Use inews for validating posted articles? ... ) | |
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30 Store requested articles by group + number. This would allow to create |
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31 pseudo-groups (like <groupname>.requested) that contained only fully |
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32 downloaded articles in overview mode (very nice and clever |
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33 idea sent in by a user, it would make using overview mode much easier). |
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34 Second advantage: Noffle would work with servers that have retrieving |
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35 articles by message-id disabled. |
| 0 | 36 |
| 37 Expire should clean up empty request/outgoing directories, so they will not | |
| 38 exists forever after a server change. | |
| 39 | |
| 40 Do not log program abortion due to SIGINT, if no inconsistency can occur, | |
| 41 (e.g. when calling 'noffle -d' to a pipe and next program terminates or | |
| 42 pressing ^C). | |
| 43 | |
| 44 Improve www page and documentation. | |
| 45 | |
| 46 Keeping the content list for several lock/unlock times could lead to | |
| 47 inconsistent results, because content list is maybe modified by | |
| 48 pseudo articles. Check this! | |
| 49 | |
| 50 Optimize NEWGROUPS (extra list?) | |
| 51 | |
| 52 Add noffle query option for checking all groups, if they are still | |
| 53 available at the remote server(s) and delete them otherwise. | |
| 54 | |
| 55 ============================================================================= | |
| 56 Some day far away | |
| 57 ============================================================================= | |
| 58 | |
| 15 | 59 understand supersedes header (useful for reading news.answers group) |
| 60 | |
| 0 | 61 Get and execute cancel messages (read control.cancel, but use xpat to get |
| 62 only cancels for groups in fetchlist). Seems to be expensive (20000 headers | |
| 63 a day, takes the remote server to search through) | |
| 64 | |
| 65 ============================================================================= | |
| 66 Always | |
| 67 ============================================================================= | |
| 68 | |
| 69 Regularely look into news.software.readers to see what people are using, | |
| 70 and test them with Noffle compiled in debug mode. | |
| 71 | |
| 72 Readers used by users or suitable for use with noffle. | |
| 73 | |
| 74 tin | |
| 75 krn | |
| 76 pine | |
| 77 netscape (4.5) | |
| 78 staroffice | |
| 79 slrn | |
| 80 gnus (?) |