General Questions

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Michael Krysiak wrote:

> When using the tradspool storage method, what is the largest number used 
> for the article file names?  What happens once this is reached, does it 
> cycle back to the first unused article number (assuming articles were 
> previously removed)?

The limit in the latest draft of the NNTP specification is 4,294,967,295.

I don't know what INN actually does when the limit is reached, but it's 
not going to be pretty because newsreaders probably aren't designed to 
deal with it.  On the other hand, it's pretty hard to get up to that 
value, so unless you've got an unusual case, you probably don't need to 
worry about it.

 
> Also, is there any built in functionality decode base64 encoded XML?

INN doesn't have any support for any sort of encodings -- all of that is 
handled by the newsreader.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org