Re: Efficiency of requesting by message-id vs group+number

On 2024-08-22, kyonshi <smaug@ereborbbs.duckdns.org> wrote:

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 07:49:43 -0000 (UTC), Jon Ribbens wrote:

It is reasonable to fetch articles by Message-ID.
NNTP's "NEWNEWS" command is designed to work that way.

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but isn't NEWNEWS blocked on most servers?

I've no idea. I haven't looked since the 1990s, when it was very rarely,
if ever, blocked. But it would seem rather surprising if the efficiency
of looking up an article by Message-ID has somehow gone *down* in the
intervening period.