[geeks] News help

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:49:42PM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> Yeah I know the ID thing that's why I was wondering if it was a doable
> feature.
> 
> I actually just downloaded gravity and the supergravity mod and I'm going to
> try them out.

The IDs are unique to the server, but what if a news client would chop the
headers, then hash the remaining message?  Then it could ignore a message
the next time it saw one with an identical body.

At least, that was what my thought was.  I never got around to
implementing it.

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Joshua D. Boyd