[ietf-nntp] OVER message-id

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Dec 19 10:03:36 PST 2003


Charles Lindsey wrote:

> But surely once you have the article, you have the Xref, from which you
> have the article number, from which you can look up the overview (no need
> to cobble up a fresh copy - in any case, the overview usually includes the
> Xref, does it not).

This is the point I was trying to make.  I would assume every server has 
a mapping from msgid to group/article#.  Once you have this, then you 
should be able to fetch any overview data, correct?

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