Patch for sm

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

[Russ Allbery]:
>
>   Going through more very old patches.

wow, it must have been a bit of work to merge that old patch in.

>   >      -S   A spool file in rnews format will be emitted on stdout.
>   
>   >      -H   Only the headers will be printed.  If -S  is  given,  a
>   >           one character fake body is included.
>   
>   These two have been added to CURRENT, although I made -S
>   incompatible with -H, because the thought of someone loading such
>   an rnews batch file and ending up with a bunch of articles with
>   the same message ID but mangled bodies bothered me.  Was there
>   some reason why that combination in particular was needed?

it was written to populate a Diablo reader server while keeping INN as
the backend spool server.  as you probably know, a Diablo reader only
keeps overview and active information.  it will populate a cache of
actually requested articles when running, but you can clear this if
you like.


Kjetil T.