Hi Russ,
With current newsreaders the motd is just annoying.
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with this, and wonder if INN should change its
upstream behavior to install a sample in a path other than the one used by
innd and nnrpd.
That would also be fine, yes.
Couldn't we install them as ${PATHETC}/motd.innd.sample and
${PATHETC}/motd.nnrpd.sample or should they be in a separate path?
In the latter case, would the ${PATHETC}/samples directory be fine?
Shouldn't we do the same for the ${PATHETC}/subscriptions file? It already
contains a list of newsgroups.
What for files like ${PATHETC}/actsync.ign? Maybe the default behaviour
is not the expected one.
my guess is that most sites
never set a MOTD, so installing one that's displayed by default is
probably not the right default behavior.
Too bad that news clients do not behave smarter...
They should cache a local copy or fingerprint of the message of the day
so that they could display the message to the user only upon modification.
Besides, they should provide a way to force the cached information to be
refreshed...
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Julien ÉLIE
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