LYNX-DEV Re: news: question

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Oct  Klaus Weide <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > So is the message available from the server?  Start with
> >    "telnet news.host.com 119".
> 
> Looks like the message is available if requested by message NUMBER, but
> not by message ID. 

There you have basically found your answer.

> The NNTP help text says either should be acceptable,
> but is that something that the news server can be configured to work with
> one, the other, or both? 

News server are complicated things.  Probably its history database is
corrupted.  You have to take that up with the newsadmin.

After all, it is the news server who told lynx those message-ids, implying
that they are available.

> Pine works, perhaps that retrieves by message
> number.  I don't recall seeing that Lynx can be set to use number instead
> of message ID; can it?

You can create such URLs manually for g)oto etc., but no, Lynx
doesn't generate its list in this form.

> > What it maybe shouldn't have is the //news.host.com/ part.

Well that's probably irrelevant then.

> Just news:comp.risks gives the same result.  news.host.com is set up
> in the lynx.cfg as NNTPSERVER:news.wwa.com (Ok, "host" is really "wwa"; 
> I was trying to protect the possibly innocent.)
> 
> > ... and you're keeping it a secret what version that would be...
> 
> Sorry.  2.7.1f, 2.7.1 with Fotemods from Jul 30.
>
> >        lynx -trace

I didn't see anything unususal there.  Except that an article in

> G Newsgroups: comp.risks

with

> G Subject: 99c Tripple Cheeseburger!!

isn't one I would miss a lot :)


   Klaus

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