I've got a setup with 3 servers behind an nntpcache which I'm experimenting with. The top server carries all groups so has very little retention. The other two have specific binary feeds. Some readers are using messageid to retrieve binaries but because they're using messageid they're coming from the main server but then it fails to cache them because they didn't come from the server that nntpcache gets that type of article from. Is it possible to cache it in the right place and then store the history? Or... Should I change the order so that text articles requested by id miss on both binaries servers before being found on the main one? What do you think? -- Faye Pearson, Software Development Manager, ClaraNET Ltd. Tel 020 7903 3000 You have no real enemies.