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2 NOFFLE Todolist |
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5 Urgent |
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121 | 11 * Improve performance of group database. Using GDBM is a bad choice, |
12 better use a btree from the Berkeley db library in libc. | |
13 This will be a good time for a redesign of the group.h interface | |
14 with respect to process concurrency if the simple global locking strategy | |
15 will be changed in the future. | |
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17 * Read timeout when running as server and automatically close if client |
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18 does not send data for a longer time. |
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20 * Implement simple filter using popen or fifos. |
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22 * Make compatible to latest NNTP draft. |
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24 * Improve speed of online mode: Keep connection to server open for a while |
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26 * Check all in |
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27 http://mars.superlink.net/user/tal/writings/news-software-authors.html |
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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. |
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37 * Expire should clean up empty request/outgoing directories, so they will not |
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38 exists forever after a server change. |
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40 * Do not log program abortion due to SIGINT, if no inconsistency can occur, |
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41 (e.g. when calling 'noffle -d' to a pipe and next program terminates or |
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42 pressing ^C). |
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44 * Improve www page and documentation. |
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46 * Keeping the content list for several lock/unlock times could lead to |
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47 inconsistent results, because content list is maybe modified by |
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48 pseudo articles. Check this! |
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50 * Optimize NEWGROUPS (extra list?) |
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52 * Add noffle query option for checking all groups, if they are still |
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53 available at the remote server(s) and delete them otherwise. |
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55 * In online mode, retrieve full article header from remote server if client |
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56 sends a HEAD command. Presently, only the header lines from the overview |
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57 are returned and the article is only retrieved on an ARTICLE or BODY command. |
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58 The reason for this was that some readers (like pine) retrieve the group |
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59 overview by sending lots of HEAD commands and their performance would badly |
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60 suffer. On the other hand, some readers (like slrn) cache the header from |
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61 a HEAD command, even if a following ARTICLE command gets more header lines, |
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62 so that not all header lines are available when reading news in online mode, |
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63 before the next start of the reader. But some header lines (e.g. Reply-To) |
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65 Maybe make the behaviour configurable. |
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72 request new subscriptions: for instance, if user mardy wants noffle to |
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