dennis@home wrote:


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?

Please enlighten the group by explaining how the NEWNEWS, NEXT, HEAD,
BODY or ARTICLE commands work and in which versions of NNTP HEAD, BODY
or ARTICLE are used other than to retrieve individual articles. While
you are at it, explain in which version of NNTP the argument to HEAD is
a date or a range of dates.

In short, dennis, you are talking crap, again but providing wonderful
proof that you know 10% of **** all about how news works.


Here's typical access to an article via NNTP.


201 UCB-VAX netnews server ready -- no posting allowed

GROUP msgs
211 103 402 504 msgs Your new group is msgs

ARTICLE 401
423 No such article in this newsgroup

ARTICLE 402
220 402 Article retrieved, text follows
(article header and body follow)
..

HEAD 403
221 403 Article retrieved, header follows
(article header follows)
..

QUIT
205 UCB-VAX news server closing connection. Goodbye.

So, dennis, where in that sequence are articles headers retrieved by
date? Indeed where is there any use made of the date in that process?

Where were articles downloaded in a batch, did you notice that every
article was requested individually?

That's two clear statements that you have made, both of them wrong. Are
you likely to admit that you were wrong? Prace bets now!