Re: LYNX-DEV news: handling

[Larry W. Virden, x2487]

From: lvirden (Larry W. Virden, x2487)

> From: David Woolley <address@hidden>
> > Note to the Lynx implementors: on nearly every server, retrieve by 
> > message-ID
> > is more expensive than retrieve by article number.  Having recently verified
> > a posting to the microsoft hierarchy by telnetting to msnews, I suspect that
> > the Microsoft implemenation may linear search the history file (message-ID
> > database).
> 
> Is there a standard, or even common practice somewhere that implements
> retrieve by article number?  If so, exactly what notation does it use?
> And where is it useful?  Could you spell out what it is you are envisioning?
> With more detail, perhaps some student here on this list, in search of
> a fall project, might byte off implementing the feature you are describing.

Well, I read Al's draft news , saw the notation, and typed:

$ lynx news:comp.lang.tcl/65470-65472

and bingo - I got just these articles from my own default news article.

So, no student need worry about this - lynx, as always, anticipates
the request. 
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