Thoughts on new overview

[Alex Kiernan]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> 
> > I've been playing around with the overview rebuilding just now, and did
> > find something worth mentioning, I guess.  I took the overview built by
> > INN as the articles appeared, and the results of rebuilding a particular
> > group, and diffed them.  The bytecounts of all of the articles have
> > increased.  For example (with newlines for readability):
> 
> Hm.  Looking at the innd algorithm, it only counts \r\n as a single
> character for the byte count, so the line count will change by the number
> of lines in the message plus the number of header lines in the message.
> It also doesn't count the blank line between the headers and the body or
> the trailing .\r\n.
> 

Completely off topic, but you just reminded me of something - innd in
-CURRENT can't count when it comes to article sizes. Set a limit of 1M
and you find there's a bunch of larger (sometimes much larger - the
biggest I found was 2.5M) articles get through too.

Trying to reproduce it straightforwardly of course doesn't reproduce
the problem :(

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Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc