Re: [Pan-users] Re: Question about "Get Headers"

[Ron Johnson]

On 03/27/2011 02:11 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Ron Johnson posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:36:23 -0500 as excerpted:
>
> >   Before I waste
> > hours of time and bandwidth, though, I wanted to ask if "Get the last N
> > days headers: 180" *AFTER* doing a "Get the last N days headers: 90" is
> > intelligent enough to only grab the headers from days 91-180?
>
> AFAIK, it is, tho not due to any particular fancy cleverness in pan, but
> rather, due simply to the way nntp works (cleverness in the protocol).
>
> What it does is get the post sequence numbers that are available from the
> server.  Since it tracks the ones it has already has, it skips them as it
> makes its requests.

Well, that didn't work...

From alt.binaries.dvd, I got 30 days of headers, then 60, then 90 but 
then with 120 days it bombed.

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