Re: Try BlockNews and/or UsenetNews again, an hour later.

On 4/11/2024 11:07 AM, Relf wrote:

You (DFS) replied ( to me ):

I list MessageIDs (100 at a time), starting from the highest Article Number,
until I find one of the 10 MessageID "bookmarks" I've saved.

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I used to do head and body commands (via Python nntplib), but they don't
work very well lately.  The 'article' command is pretty quick, though.
info = news.article(artID)  artID = info[0]  msgID = info[1]  msg = info[2]

 Yes, instead of "head" and "body", I use the "article" command.

The SuckMT program is a multithreaded Usenet downloader for Windows, but it continually disconnects after around 4K posts are downloaded.

a minute ago, from blocknews:
     211 1795999 899518 2695516 comp.os.linux.advocacy
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But blocknews recently screwed up their article numbering,
and there are a lot of gaps in the sequence,
so there aren't 1795999 articles available on their server.

 At times, blocknews is missing some articles and such;
some seconds later, they're back.

Did that just start?  For years BN has been rock solid and fast, but in the past few months it's not working too well (for me).

My code actually checks that blocknews has the 10 MessageIDs
that makes up my "bookmark", in the order expected;
if it doesn't, it pays to try again later.

Which server(s) do you use to build a bookmark of 10 Msg-IDs in a specific order?  What's the order?
Note also that eternal-september blocks a variety of nyms.  Using ES, I never see anything from alt.checkmate in cola (which is good).
blocknews allows crossposting from alt.checkmate, so their data often won't match with eternal-september.