Removing obsolete control messages in INN 2.7

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> I've just taken the time to test the whole thing.

> Here is what I found out to work, and suggest for the man page.
> Does it sound good to you?

Thanks!  Yes, it sounds good to me.  I see what you mean about the entire
flow not being clear.  Presumably you want to send only the ihave control
messages to the remote server until they reply with sendme control
messages, and then you want to include those messages in the feed along
with more ihave control messages, but I'm not sure exactly what that
configuration would look like.  But this seems like enough detail to get
people pointed in the right direction should anyone want to make this
work.

> (Note that if you send C<*> to C<news.server.com>, you should add
> C<@to, at to.*> to the end of the newsgroup pattern so as not to propose it
> twice the ihave control message that will be generated by B<send-ihave>.

I think the grammar got a bit confused at the end of that sentence.  Maybe
something like:

    you should add C<@to, at to.8> to the end of the newsgroup pattern so
    that the ihave control message generated by B<send-ihave> isn't,
    itself, included in the list of articles in an ihave control message.

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