Re: Gnus 5.5 not displaying new articles in group

[Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 07:59:57PM +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:

  Steinar> If you read a newsspool maintained with leafnode, using nnspool, how
  Steinar> does leafnode know what to fetch, and what to continue to fetch?

>>>>> On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Stefanie Teufel said:

  Stefanie> Leafnode itself is the NNTP server. It talks to your news
  Stefanie> client, and stores readership data. Fetch (which comes
  Stefanie> with leafnode) is the NNTP news-gatherer. It looks at the
  Stefanie> readership data Leafnode stores, and selects what groups
  Stefanie> to pull news from.

Yes, but if you read your news using nnspool, leafnode will never know
about it!

fetch does not fetch groups which haven't been read for a week (or
so), and the only program that knows whether something has been read
is leafnode, because it gets the GROUP and ARTICLE commands.  And
leafnode is the program that stores the data so fetch knows what to
fetch.

I try to defeat this mechanism by having a cron job which runs touch
on those files in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups which are
relevant for me.  Maybe you're doing this too, Stefanie?

Or are you reading your news using nntp rather than nnspool?

kai
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