Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "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].
It has been available ever since the lastout & prevout[1-7]
directories were added (version 2.6-beta from what I can tell).
> 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.
When a program gets a complex it becomes impossible to tell users what
they can do with it. There are so many things that can be done by
editing the cache files directly that it is impractical to list them
since nobody would read the instructions if they were too long. The
manual pages are intended to cover how to run and configure the
program.
--
Andrew.
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WWWOFFLE users page:
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