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In article <FwRI1BA8g5D4EwTt@borve.demon.co.uk>, Neil Fernandez
<ncf@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk> writes

[of Turnpike]

>>>Knews show "blank boxes" for missing posts (the newsreader
>>>knows the article IDs from the "references" headers in the ones it
>>>can see)
>>
>>... because TP can only do that if the missing article is referenced in
>>a follow- up.

>Out of interest - if someone posts an article which gives the Message-ID
>of an article posted a year ago in its References: header, or indeed the
>'Message-ID' of an article that was never posted anywhere, will the
>latter show up as a blank box? 

Yes, because it only has the reference to tell it that an article
supposedly exists; no other information (unless that article happens to
be present, in which case your point is moot)

>Or does TP only do that for references to
>articles posted with TP

No.

> (or rather, that appear from their Message-ID to
>have been posted with TP), where it can suss (supposedly) the date of
>the referenced article? 

No.

>Just wondering... 

...off the subject; CP & FU set

>TIA,

'welcome.
-- 
Andy Mabbett
        "If they censure you, they tell you to cut it out.
         If they censor you, they just cut it out."