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  • Q: 'pinned' message

    From ejs@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 3 21:52:33 2022
    Dear All,

    we are running an Usenet server with local groups only.

    Only *.test groups accepts unauthorized posts here. With the advent of Thunderbird's NNTP implementation in JS we get a some complains that it
    is impossible to post to the server.

    We have added information to our Web page, but we also want to keep the
    message in the *.test group.
    We tried posting a message with the date in the future (like year 2023),
    but INN is rejecting the post.

    Is there any other way to protect the message? We can access the files
    and it is possible to alter both the content and file attributes.

    --
    ejs
    news://news.rkm.lt

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to ejs on Mon Oct 3 12:30:48 2022
    ejs <[email protected]> writes:

    we are running an Usenet server with local groups only.

    Only *.test groups accepts unauthorized posts here. With the advent of Thunderbird's NNTP implementation in JS we get a some complains that it
    is impossible to post to the server.

    We have added information to our Web page, but we also want to keep the message in the *.test group. We tried posting a message with the date
    in the future (like year 2023), but INN is rejecting the post.

    Is there any other way to protect the message? We can access the files and
    it is possible to alter both the content and file attributes.

    There have been various proposals for how to do pinned messages, but so
    far as I know no one has ever implemented any of them.

    Your best bet with existing technology is probably to post a message with
    an Expires far into the future and make sure your expiration rules for the relevant group allow Expires to override the normal expiration period.
    That will eventualy make that the first unexpired message in the group.
    (You may have to add some rules to protect against users abusing Expires
    as well.)

    --
    Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
    <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.

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  • From ejs@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 5 11:29:12 2022
    2022-10-03 22:30, Russ Allbery rašė:
    ejs <[email protected]> writes:


    Your best bet with existing technology is probably to post a message with
    an Expires far into the future and make sure your expiration rules for the relevant group allow Expires to override the normal expiration period.
    That will eventualy make that the first unexpired message in the group.
    (You may have to add some rules to protect against users abusing Expires
    as well.)

    Thank you for the response.

    We are testing this suggestion right now.

    One way of dealing with 'Expires' headers is to allow them from
    authorized users only, where Perl/Pyhon filtering comes handy.

    --
    ejs
    news://news.rkm.lt

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