Re: [Pan-users] Does "Get All Headers" ...

[Ron Johnson]

On 09/13/2011 10:18 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:00:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > blindly get all headers whether or not they're already in the groups
> > cache, or does it check first to see whether the header has been
> > downloaded?
>
> It gets all headers.  There's no easy way (at least that I've ever heard
> of) in the NNTP protocol for a reader to say "I've got these headers,
> what have you got?"

If there's a "get specified header" then the client could perform such a 
task iteratively by looking at what it has.

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