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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00

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In article <338becd7@gauss.demon.co.uk>, Andrew Bennett
<ben@gauss.demon.co.uk> writes

> A few NNTP queries:
>
> Anyone know how widespread the XOVER command is

no :)

>, is it implemented
>on the majority of news servers ?

probably - there are said to be around 200,000 servers on the planet,
and quite a lot of them run INN :)  I don't think you're going to get
any categoric answers though.

> Is there any common "minimum standard" for which fields are present ?

RFC977 (though strictly this isn't a standard)

you should probably be reading Stan Barber's Internet Draft

        draft-barber-nntp-imp-xx.txt   (for some value of xx)

> Is article retrieval speed generally better when using article no.'s
>as opposed to MessageID's ?

this too is a server specific question

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