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Gary Priest <gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>  In article <199707292012131501264@pwomar.demon.co.uk>
>   News@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) wrote:-
>
> >Are you sure that it doesn't just duplicate the actions of the NOS
> >killfile?  It is trivial to stop NOS from fetching messages with
> >specific message id's.  The problem in the bombing case was the sheer
> 
> Err. Yes I am trying to replicate NOS in the way it downloads news (as far
> as flexibility and speed go). But with STiK!!!
> Maybe I didn't make that clear. I did say it was similar to POPwatch :)

Ah that's OK then, it was just that you said it would support the NOS
format too so I thought that you didn't realise that NOS already did it.
 
> >number of headers, you have to download the header in order to find out
> >if you want the actual article body or not, to the best of my knowledge
> >you can't say to the newsserver "don't send me any headers with
> >kidsoft.com in them" or similar.
> 
> If it's so 'trivial' to stop NOS downloading messages with ID's then I don't
> understand the above statement. You seem to contradict yourself here.
> First you say it's trivial then you say it's not possible!
> 
> If you use NEWNEWS to download a list of message IDs (not headers),
[snip]

Oh dear, yep you are right, sorry.  I forgot all about using Newnews to
get articles.

> Maybe your MAC software can't do that. But News Hound will!!! Perhaps you
> should switch back to the Atari :-))

Well the software I use at the moment certainly can't as it fetches by
message number instead of ID.  I am told that this is generally better
although in this situation is certainly isn't.
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