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INN (InterNetNews) Usenet server
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Support storing articles by their Path header field #297

Closed Julien-Elie closed 5 months ago

Julien-Elie commented 5 months ago

Christoph Biedl provided a patch in inn-workers to allow one to store articles into a separate storage class depending on their Path header field.

This feature was motivated by a lot of spam from a particular site in late 2023. While NoCeM notices kill it after a few minutes, the area in a CNFS buffer is still allocated, and retention suffers. By using this option, articles from spammy sites can be stored separately so they will only harm each other.

This path is not shown in the cnfsstat output yet, but a future enhancement of the program may show it.