
Version 1.5

The main feature added is the "delaybody" option in the config
file. If chosen, only the message headers are downloaded at first.
If someone attempts to read a message body he gets a text telling him
that the message has been marked for download by fetch.

The files in $SPOOL_DIR/interesting.groups are used for storing
the numbers of marked messages.

This can save a huge amount of download time if only
few messages are really read from groups with many postings.

An alternative way would have been using the XOVER command which gives
a short summary of the headers and generate pseudo headers for news
clients who use the HEAD command for listing the mails of a group.
This would have reduced the download time by another factor of 10, but I
could not find an easy way to implement it into the existing leafnode code.


The complete rereading of the newsgroup list from the remote server is done
less frequently now (READ_INTERVALL in leafnode.h set to 90 days).
Instead, fetch uses the NEWGROUPS command every time it is run.


Some changes are made concerning the pseudo mail that is shown when a
group is opened for the first time (telling some infos about leafnode).
It did not work satisfyingly before.


Author: Markus Enzenberger <enz@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: April 1998

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Version 1.4-7

This version is identical to leafnode-1.4, except for some
little fixes mostly provided by redhat and debian.
The empty files put in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups
were preceded by a period, for example: .alt.os.linux
instead of the proper alt.os.linux etc.
Also the config file now reads 'maxfetch' instead of the
incorrect 'maxcount'.
Also a change to the Makefile to allow it to create
the subdirectories in /var/spool/news/message.id
without a problem when you do make install.

Author: Kent Robotti <robotti@erols.com>
Date: March 1998

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Version 1.4

Written  by  Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> and copy-
right 1995 Troll Tech AS, Postboks  6133  Etterstad,  0602
Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22646949.

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