On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 12:14:28AM -0700, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> The following problem report regarding nntp support in lynx came from the
> BLIND-L mailing list. It appears that the information from the
> Message-ID line is not used to construct a correct URL, so the message
> can't be retrieved. The HEAD command leads to a response:
> 221 403831 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>head
> 
> The server needs to be sent: ARTICLE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> but gets sent instead: ARTICLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> The angle brackets cause the server to respond with "Bad Article
> Number". I'll look to see if I can see where the problem with parsing
> comes from. If anyone knows the news code well, it might be easier for
> you to fix this.

I can see the problem also (unlike most of the news-group stuff, this one
doesn't require authentication to view).  Perhaps it's a simple bug (if
it is, we can fix it ;-)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com

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