INN commit: branches/2.5/doc/pod (inn.conf.pod)

[INN Commit]

    Date: Monday, February 8, 2010 @ 12:52:50
  Author: iulius
Revision: 8957

Clarify how posting backoff is activated.

Thanks to Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard for the report.

Modified:
  branches/2.5/doc/pod/inn.conf.pod

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 inn.conf.pod |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Modified: inn.conf.pod
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--- inn.conf.pod	2010-02-08 20:50:47 UTC (rev 8956)
+++ inn.conf.pod	2010-02-08 20:52:50 UTC (rev 8957)
@@ -939,14 +939,14 @@
 nnrpd(8) has support for controlling high-volume posters via an
 exponential backoff algorithm, as configured by the following parameters.
 
-Exponential posting backoff works as follows:  News clients are indexed by
-IP address (or username, see I<backoffauth> below).  Each time a post is
-received from an IP address, the time of posting is stored (along with the
-previous sleep time, see below).  After a configurable number of posts in
-a configurable period of time, nnrpd(8) will activate posting backoff and
-begin to sleep for increasing periods of time before actually posting
-anything.  Posts will still be accepted, but at an increasingly reduced
-rate.
+Exponential posting backoff works as follows:  news clients are indexed
+by IP address (or username, see I<backoffauth> below).  Each time a post
+is received from an IP address, the time of posting is stored (along
+with the previous sleep time, see below).  After a configurable number
+of posts in a configurable period of time, nnrpd(8) will begin to sleep
+for increasing periods of time before actually posting anything (posting
+backoff is therefore activated).  Posts will still be accepted, but at an
+increasingly reduced rate.
 
 After backoff has been activated, the length of time to sleep is computed
 based on the difference in time between the last posting and the current
@@ -956,6 +956,8 @@
 I<backoffpostfast>, then the new sleep time will equal the previous sleep
 time.  If this difference is greater than I<backoffpostslow>, the new
 sleep time is zero and posting backoff is deactivated for this poster.
+(Note that this does not mean posting backoff cannot be reactivated later
+in the session.)
 
 Exponential posting backoff will not be enabled unless I<backoffdb> is set
 and I<backoffpostfast> and I<backoffpostslow> are set to something other