On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 03:19:39PM +1200, Alan Brown wrote: > Suck has a command line switch for retrieving by article number > rather than Message-ID. > > If I catch people retrieving by Message-ID rather than article > number, they usually get LARTed and told to use article numbers. A bit harsh? Getting a message via Message-ID is allowed and can be very useful, its the only thing that approaches a global identifying for messages that people who use different news feed can use as a common reference. > Retrieving by Message-ID causes nnrpd processes to get "very big, very > quickly" on INN systems as it forces the entire history database to be > loaded after around 20 retrievals. It does much the same to nntpcache from > what I've seen, though it hasn't happened here for about a year. More an artifact of the fact the news has gotten very very big and the net has gotten very very clue-less........ (exercise for the reader, prove that the limit of 'sum(Niq)/N approaches zero' where sum(Niq) is the sum of the IQs of all net users and N is the total net population). -Chris
