access: in readers.conf

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:
> 
> > That's the problem -- [allownewnews] isn't a readers.conf parameter
> 
> Isn't it?  Oh, yeah, it isn't.  Okay, that's weird.

Which is why we're going to fix it :-)


> > Heh, true.  I guess defaulting to false would make sense for that one,
> > especially since a default can be set at the top of readers.conf and
> > inherit through.
> 
> Does that work currently?  I know it will work with the new parser, but I
> can't ever remember how well readers.conf inherits parameters at present.

*poke*  Yeah, it seems to work just fine.

Hmm, oddly enough, max_rate is "unexpected token" at top level (access and 
reject_with both work fine).  I probably flubbed something with that 
patch, long ago.  I guess no point in worrying about it now.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org