[NNTP] Article Numbers Becoming Invalid (RFC 3977)
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at davros.org
Sun Dec 27 15:10:53 PST 2009
Sabahattin Gucukoglu said:
> I'm trying to write a program that gets all articles from a group, articles numbered in ascending order,
Most of your questions have been answered, but the usual way to do this is:
GROUP a.group
ARTICLE
The ARTICLE might give a 420 failure response - don't worry if it does.
Then repeat the following pair of commands:
NEXT
ARTICLE
until you get a 421 response from NEXT. That will get you all the articles.
Again, you might get a 420 from any of the ARTICLE commands if an article
is removed at just the wrong moment.
If you just want a list of numbers, then:
GROUP a.group
STAT
NEXT
NEXT
NEXT
...
until the NEXT gives a 421.
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