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Dan Glover <news@dangl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <946756827.5755.0.nnrp-02.9e98d142@news.demon.co.uk>, 
>Ian Stirling <Inquisitor@I.am> wrote:
>>Dan Glover <news@dangl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>In article <386E0B03.E5F851A9@NOSPAM.netunix.com>, "C. Newport" 
>>><crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote:

>>>>nntpget has a NEWNEWS option and is fully supported as part of inn.

>>>So it does!  Thanks for encouraging me to look at it again...slightly
>>>ironic that this is included given the attitude of INN folk to NEWNEWS.

>>It doesn't.

>Work?  Have a NEWNEWS option?  Can you give a little clue as to what
>"doesn't", please?

Sorry, doesn't stack requests, so throughput goes through the floor in some
circumstances.
Also the version I'd used fell over, due to overlong lines at least 
5-10 times per news collection for me, making it almost useless.
To the extent that an awk script I cobbled together worked better.

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