[ietf-nntp] OVER message-id

[Charles Lindsey]

In <E1AXmlF-000Jeg-JQ at trinity.supernews.net> "Andrew - Supernews" <andrew at supernews.net> writes:

>Typical large Diablo configurations do not return an Xref in articles
>fetched by message-id. (It's not usual in such cases to number the
>articles prior to storage, since that requires making the numbering
>box into a big central bottleneck for the whole system - better to
>number only the headers.)

So a client of such a server running a suck feed using NEWNEWS never gets
to see an Xref, and so cannot arrange to mark crossposted articles as
already seen. I take such a feed from Berlin, and Xrefs arrive and are
used just fine.

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