On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:32:10 +0100, dennis@home wrote:



"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:45:16 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

"D.M.Chapman" dmc@puffin. wrote in message
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In article , dennis@home
wrote:

The thread reference is so you can get your reader to go back and
fetch the
messages should you decide to read them.

No, that the Message-ID: header and the article number.

#256998 and "Message-ID: " in the
case of your post.

Its a throwback to the days of limited bandwidth.

No, that's the Message-ID: header and the article number. They are
used (IIRC, it's been a few years) by the ARTICLE command issued by
your NNTP client.


These days its quicker to just go and fetch all the headers.

All the headers? So everytime you start your client it's downloading
the thousands (tens of?) of headers from the group? I think not...

You think it goes and asks for them individually? You don't think it
uses the date to get new headers?

But you said *all* the headers.

And?
I didn't say it fetches them every time it starts up like you think it
needs to.

You are a master at misunderstanding. Either you do it deliverately, or
you are very, very stupid.

I think it's the latter (stupid, in case you don't understand 'latter').



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