On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:55:00AM +0100, Thomas Adams wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 01:32:57AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers > > implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above. > > I'm sure every news server lets you download headers only. But what good is > that if your client isn't able to demand this? Until now I knew about Windows > and Mac newsreaders which do this and now you're telling me about NS. Not > that > I would use NS for news but it's good to know that there is one Linux program > offering this facility.
Per the source code, the "standard" (oversimplified) sequence is: 1. For each subscribed group, fetch the article count. Calc and display group name, number of unread articles, etc. 2. When a group is selected, fetch headers for unread articles. Display subject, author, etc. 3. When an article is selected, fetch and display contents. I know slrn and trn normally work this way, don't offhand know of any Linux/Unix newsreader that doesn't. (Yes, if you really want, they can be config'd to work less efficiently.) -- Regards, Roger Pittman News Admin for Lucent NDS #include <std/disclaimer.h>