YouGov :"POLL - Blunkett's proposals on internet privacy: for or against"

[Derek Fawcus]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:54:40PM +0000, Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:53:57 +0000, Ian G Batten wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> >
> >> Ian G Batten <I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > but it's hard to see how in NNTP-land you'll find message-ids without
> >> > setting a group.
> >> 
> >> NEWNEWS

Yeah - I used to use slurp with demon,  and it used NEWNEWS.

In fact,  their servers were optimised for issuing NEWNEWS requests.

> >Good point.  It's an absolute dog on my news server, but it is a little
> >underpowered by modern standards.
> 
> But NEWNEWS expects to be supplied with a list of groups for which to
> request new articles....

However I may request the list of articles that are new in a number
of groups,  and then download a dodgy one just 'cause it was cross
posted.

Also message-id's are supposed to be unique - this being why request
by message-is works,  and I've occasionally seen references to articles
mentioned in URL's as "news:<message-id>".  In this instance you'd be
fetching an article without any group reference.

DF