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From: Andrew Bennett
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00

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In a message of 28 May 97 Richard Clayton wrote to All:

[ XOVER ] 

>> Is there any common "minimum standard" for which fields are present ?
 RC> RFC977 (though strictly this isn't a standard)

 Hmm, read it, there's no info on any of the extension (X???) commands in
that one.

 RC> you should probably be reading Stan Barber's Internet Draft
 RC>         draft-barber-nntp-imp-xx.txt   (for some value of xx)

 Read that too, (possibly not the most recent version), I know I can
find the format using the "LIST OVERVIEW.FMT" command, but it would be
reassuring to know that there would always be the MessageID:, Lines: and
Bytes: fields available.

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

 RC> this too is a server specific question

 I guessed as much.. so, to be specific, is there any difference on the
current demon server ?

-- 
Andrew Bennett - ben@gauss.demon.co.uk - http://www.gauss.demon.co.uk/

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