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[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> In <3e71e5fb.2062094 at 145.253.176.102> infstar at infostar.de (Juergen Helbing) writes:
> 
> >I am using STAT in combination with POST to verify if an article is
> >already available upstream before sending it for posting feeds (ihave
> >not permitted for).

Be careful, because some servers rewrite the Message-ID upon posting, in 
which case you'd have duplicate articles floating around.


> news.cis.dfn.de have implemented a nice extension to IHAVE whereby they
> will accept that command from anybody (or at least from whose they will
> allow to Approve). If they already have the article, they respond
> accordingly; otherwise, they allow you to send it, but treat it like POST
> (i.e. they add their usual tracing headers).

Recent snapshots of INN have similar support, actually.


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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org