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

On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:15:35 -0000 (UTC), Urs Jan?en <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:

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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| 502 NEWNEWS command disabled by administrator
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guess why.

only curious (didn't know why so i googled it) . . .

(using Tor Browser 13.5.2)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nntp+newnews+expensive

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https://linux.die.net/man/8/nntpd
The optional allownewnews option enables the NNTP NEWNEWS command. NOTE:
For servers with a large volume of articles, the NEWNEWS command can be
expensive.
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https://www.unix.com/man-page/centos/8/nntpd/
https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/manpages/systemcommands/nntpd.html
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/kinetic/en/man8/cyrus-nntpd.8.html
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