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From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: When was last?
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.050042.18935@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 89 05:00:42 GMT
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I just read the RFC 977, and one thing really puzzled me. When asking for
new articles or newsgroups since a particular date, how do you find out what
time the server thinks it is? In a perfect world, this wouldn't be a problem,
but with the amount of traffic coming in, there's almost sure to be a few
articles slip by because of time differences.

Either: in the reply to the NEWNEWS or NEWGROUPS commands, repond with the
current date and time;

Or: (for NEWNEWS, anyway) be able to ask for all message ids that were added
after a given message id (which would, presumably, be the last message id
that was received the last time a NEWNEWS had been done).
--
Steve Peltz (almost) CFI-G
"Monticello traffic, Glider 949 landing 18, full stop"