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Re: lynx-dev Re: problem with lynx as newsreader (fwd)
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Ian Collier |
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Re: lynx-dev Re: problem with lynx as newsreader (fwd) |
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Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:11:54 +0100 |
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:36:54AM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
[lynx "nntp://email.sparklist.com";]
> It seems that this may be a problem with the server. When I test
> with other servers, the message id is enclosed in angle brackets and
> everything goes OK.
The server is broken. There are two ways to retrieve an article:
by number (without the angle brackets) and by message-id (with the
angle brackets). The server doesn't support the latter. Moreover,
when using the former method it can return articles that aren't in
the current newsgroup.
imc
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