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fillmore@emr1.emr.ca (Bob Fillmore 992-2832) writes:

>In article <Bu8pDC.HJ5@ux1.isu.edu> axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) writes:
>>simmdan@ux1.isu.edu = ted@telematics.com (Ted Goldblatt) writes:
>>
>>> Date: 4 Sep 92 21:53:59 GMT
>>> Sender: simmdan@ux1.isu.edu (Daniel Simmons)
>>> Organization: Telematics Intl., Inc.; Ft. Lauderdale, FL
>>
>>> Is it the sense of the net (:-)) that having the news server
>>> feed the news readers via nntp is preferable to feeding via
>>> (read only) exported NFS filesystems, or vice versa?
>>
>In rrn, when listing article titles in a newsgroup, or asking to
>read the first article in a group, there was a long delay (with periods
>marching across the screen) while the NNTP client was interrogating
>the server to see if the next article exists.  The protocol apparently
>had no way for the server to tell the client the number of the first
>article in a group.

While NNTP may have some failings, this is not one of them.  If this
behaviour is indeed true, it is a poorly implemented client.  Read the
RFC - a GROUP command returns the number of the first, last, and a count
of articles.  If a client does not use this information, fault the 
client, not the protocol.

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