Transit server not transmitting all articles

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi all,

> Recently (not sure when so not sure what changed) something strange
> started to happen where the transit servers seems to give the following
> behavior:
> 
> - Articles are received correctly from all peers
> - Articles received from peer 1 are queued for peer 2 and visa versa
> - Articles received from the reader is MOSTLY not queued for any peers

[...]

> Newsgroups:
> alt.binaries.dvd,alt.binaries.ftd,alt.binaries.moovee,alt.binaries.nl,
> alt.binaries.x

[...]

> peer1/<obscured>\
> :*/!junk/!local\
> :Af,Ap,C20,G20,U20,Tm,<2500000\
> :innfeed!

For the archives and possible future reference, the issue was brought along by how "C20" works for articles without a Followup-To: header field.  Followups are considered to be sent to the same newsgroups as the original post (and not 0 or 1).

I've improved the wording in newsfeeds documentation to clearly explain that:

       C count
           If this flag is specified, an article will only be sent to this
           site if the number of groups it is posted to, plus the square of
           the number of groups followups would appear in, is no more than
           count.  30 is a good value for this flag, allowing for instance:

           ·  crossposts to only 5 groups when followups aren't set;

           ·  crossposts to up to 26 groups when followups are set to two
              groups;

           ·  crossposts to up to 29 groups when followups are set to a single
              group;

           ·  crossposts to up to 30 groups when followups are set to poster.

           Note that if an article does not contain a Followup-To: header
           field, the number of groups followups would appear in is the number
           of groups it is posted to.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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