Re: [Pan-users] Articles Pan Can't Read

[Mark S Bilk]

Duncan, many thanks for this info!  Just what I need for 
easing into this debugging session.  It's going to be 
a fun night -- only one, I hope!

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 03:41:10AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
>Mark S Bilk posted on Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:14:38 -0700 as excerpted:
>
>> (But KNode has no trouble using Astraweb.  Is there more than one
>> protocol for requesting an article from a server?  Will I have to dig
>> out Ethereal and spend a week decoding hex in network packets?  Aggh!)
>
>Yes.
>
>Messages can be requested by Message-ID or by per-server/per-group 
>message sequence number.  The former is a bit more work to implement in 
>the client, but is global -- message-ids are the same no matter which 
>server you get them from.  This is the way nzb files work, etc.
>...