Phantom articles

[Per Hedeland]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
>INN is trying to feed you a large backlog and all of the articles are
>missing because they've expired.  Delete the backlog and it'll be fine.
>
>(Ideally, INN should check whether an article is still present before
>offering it.)

But this isn't ideal either, as it may be unnecessarily expensive (even
with cnfs?) in the more normal case, where all/most articles are present
but many are refused by the remote. Ideally, INN (innfeed, innxmit)
should have an option to select which method to use - IIRC, "nntplink"
had that.

--Per Hedeland
per at erix.ericsson.se