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

Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> wrote or quoted:

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.

  If I've got a message ID and wanna check out the related article,
  I throw in:

article <message ID>

  .