Re: last message in a group

Hello,

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:08:32AM -0700, Thufir wrote:
> I kinda get the interface, that you can use NEXT and LAST to iterate 
> through the messages.  How do you jump to the last message, however? 

Recommended reading: RFC 3977
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3977

If RFC3977 is too abstract: Former RFCs sometimes are easier to read.
The former NNTP-RFC is 977.

Then you don't have to figure out for yourself what the commands do...
;-)

> GROUP gwene.com.economist
> 211 257 3 259 gwene.com.economist group selected

"I have selected the given group. I estimate, there are 257 articles in
this group. The lowest article number is 3, the highest article number
is 259."

So maybe you want to use
| ARTICLE 259

Maybe a newsserver can't do what you want. That pretty much depends on
your definition of "last". As far as I remember, the article count is
only increased for each article, so it resembles the order of arrival.
But that's it. Time of posting or Date-Header or something, they all get
ignored.

Have fun

Martin