[NNTP] Misc changes

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon May 2 01:00:44 PDT 2005


Charles Lindsey said:
> Hmmm! If you are a pure transit server, then the only use for NEWNEWS
> would appear to be for discovering what articles the server has already
> got, to avoid sending them with TAKETHIS. Does anybody actually use it
> that way? ISTM that is what IHAVE was meant for.

IHAVE requires round-trips and can't be pipelined. NEWNEWS can be used as a
first-pass filter, after which TAKETHIS does the job.

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