Whole buncha d-u-m-b questions

[Russ Allbery]

bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
> In article <ylbt03sqcx.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> you write:

>> It should be able to feed from regular file names as well as storage
>> API tokens; I've added that to the TODO list.  It's nice to be able to
>> use innxmit to feed a bunch of random files you found on your hard disk
>> somewhere to some random news server just to see what it'll do with
>> them.  Like, say, backfill a group you keep forever from your backups
>> that you've been trying to get around to loading for years now and are
>> using switching to a new news server for an excuse to get to.

> Why bother? This is already done by rnews, and since I applied the patch
> you gave me the other day it works (again) beautifully.

'cause innxmit takes a list, and if you can put the message ID in the list
it won't even try to open the article if the remote server already has
that message ID, which under many circumstances makes it a lot faster.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>