Re: Sucking headers only

Submission from Kristofer Pettijohn <[email protected]>:
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> Afaict this functionality would not be very useful, once you had
fetched 
> the headers and fed them to your local newsserver, you would not be
able 
> to refeed some of them again /with/ body - The newsserver would not 
> accept them because it identifies articles by their Message-ID header.
>            cu andreas

It would be useful with the Diablo news feeder.  It will accept a
head-only
feed, and when an article is requested it will request it from an
outside
spool (other news servers) and cache it.



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