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

[Heinrich Mueller]

Am 14.09.2011 05:41, schrieb 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.
Yeah, but then there would be a million tasks because the client has to 
check for _every_ part of every message with
a NNTP request.