rnews, inews: Neither has all the features
Felix E. Klee
felix.klee at inka.de
Sat Nov 13 18:06:10 UTC 2004
Hi,
I need a solution for a problem roughly defined by the following two
requirements:
1. From a script, I want to occasionally post messages to news groups in
mode "n".
2. I want to know when posting a message fails because the message ID is
already in the database. (In this case, I will have the message ID
changed and the message reposted. And, yes, there is need for
handling cases with duplicate message IDs on our system. I could
give you an example for a likely scenario where duplicate IDs are
created. It has happened in the past.)
Here's what I found so far:
rnews: This one does 1 but doesn't do 2 (it doesn't report to the
command line when posting failed, even with the parameter "-v").
inews: This one does 2 but doesn't do 1.
grephistory+rnews: This does 1 and 2, but I'm worried about two things:
a) The execution time of grephistory may be very long for large
databases.
b) In between the calls to grephistory and rnews, there would be
code to update the Message ID if there's a conflict. During this
time, a message with a conflicting ID may be posted. But, in
reality, this is quite unlikely.
In a nutshell, it boils down to few questions:
I How is the execution time of grephistory for very large databases (I
can't test that right now)?
II May a call to grephistory take much longer than one to rnews? (I
doubt it since the news server also needs to check for duplicate
IDs, maybe using the same code.)
III Is there a solution I missed?
Felix
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