Program "crosspost" useful?

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> What is the use of backends/crosspost?
> It seems to have been broken since 1997 (change of storage API).
>
> **  Parse input to add links for cross posted articles.  Input format is one
> **  line per article.  Dots '.' are changed to '/'.  Commas ',' or blanks
> **  ' ' separate entries.  Typically this is via a channel feed from innd
> **  though an edit of the history file can also be used for recovery
> **  purposes.  Sample newsfeeds entry:
> **
> **      # Create the links for cross posted articles
> **      crosspost:*:Tc,Ap,WR:/usr/local/newsbin/crosspost
> **
> **  WARNING: This no longer works with the current INN; don't use it
> **  currently.  It still exists in the source tree in case someone will
> **  want to clean it up and make it useable again.
>
> What would INN have that program now for?  What is the need?

The idea is that with a tradspool spool, you can offload the process of
creating symlinks to a separate process and do a bit more work in
parallel.  However, at this point, anyone who cares a lot about
performance is probably using a different storage backend for most of
their groups.  At this point, I think we can just delete it.

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