Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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host.drop

The file host.drop is created by Chanx if it is invoked with option -ld and if article filtering is enabled.

The file will be created in a subdirectory of Changi's working directory, specified by CHANGIWORKDIR. The name of the subdirectory will be equal the name of the remote server's domain. The basename of the file will be equal the remote's hostname without domain, to which .drop is appended.

Assuming, that articles from news.ping.de are filtered and CHANGIWORKDIR has been set to C:\CHANGI, then Chanx will create a file named C:\CHANGI\ping.de\news.drop.

Depending on Chanx' retrieval mode, this file will contain three different types of lines, where each line corresponds to a dropped article:

  1. newsgroup name followed by a colon, followed by an overview line
  2. message-id
  3. newsgroup name followed by a colon, followed by an article number
If you later decide to retrieve some or all dropped articles, simply copy the corresponding lines from host.drop to host.iwant.


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URL: changi/manual/hostdrop.html
Created: 3 August 1996
Revised: 21 November 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de