>>>>> "ab" == Andrew M Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

ab> Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >>>>> "K" == Klaus-Uwe Ittner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
K> On 17 Feb 2002 at 21:56, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> >> "Sorry! We have flood-control activated. You cannot post within a
>> >> certain number of seconds of your last post. Please try again after
>> >> this period of time elapses. The current number of seconds required
>> >> between posts is: 60"
K> How should wwwoffle deal with this? It does not look like an error
K> message as e.g. 503 (Service unavailable as described in RFC 2616) ...
K> So wwwoffle thinks all should be ok ...
>> 
>> mmmm... I know, a new [Wastebasket] (1)(2)(3)...(7)...

ab> How about using the existing lastout and prevout[1-7] directories.
ab> They contain a list of the requests that were sent from the outgoing
ab> directory during the last (previous N) sessions.

I see, you will leave backups of POST _contents_, failed or not, in
the previous outgoing directories, in future editions of wwwoffle
[this not available in the current version, I suppose].  Ok, but on
the man pages also tell users useful things they can do with failed
post carcasses: how to resubmit them, how to strip back text out of
them, etc.
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