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If you don't want to make it an option, why not just letting UE respect the "Don't get headers" option from the server properties ? My goal was to have XPAT search groups with an specific keywords, that would scan specific newsgroups and autodownload and save everything it would find autom...

Alex, do you have an update here ? I've installed recently the latest UE to replace my newspro and now I see that the option "not to download headers" is still ignored when using xpat(same issue as DDX). I didn't want to use the threads of my download server on searching. Any chance this c...

Ed, you give me the feeling that I was not clear. Or that you didn't understand the point. Let's follow your line. You said: >"The purpose of the priorities is exactly what you want it to be. Taking the strict flag away will simply allow additional tasks to be added on the lower priority server...

As I said, this workaround is not bad...(Although it works better now with this config I posted in the previous msg) But, the way you say, sounds like it doesn't really make a difference to use priorities or not. What's the purpose then of using priorities without the "strict" flag in News...

Unfortunately the answer doesn't lie above. Setting strict to Demon will not allow Newszilla to get things if the task slots from demon are full. It looks like the answer is: Newspro won't do it. Edfreeman, your workaround is not too bad (setting both with same priority) but now actually I'm using a...

All you and Alex said is true, but untill now I didn't really see an option to do as I want: Demon - Fast / higher priority Newszilla - Slower / average priority Astraweb - Expensive / Only download here IF BOTH servers above do NOT have the body. The initial question is: "Is there a way to sol...

You said: "then it excludes newszilla from further attempts, so if afterwards the demon server has tasks slots available - newspro will use it since it has higher priority" That's the ideia, but this is exactly what is NOT happening to me. If Demon had no task slot available, it tries then...

I understand that, but not "all" failed. Only the server with priority 50 failed ! The server with highest priority (100) didn't have the chance to try that body... Explaining again: The high server (100 - Demon) has 3 tasks limit...When it reached this limit, it tried the server (50 - New...

Here is my servers config: 1- news.astraweb.com Priority: 1 2-new.demon.nl Priority: 100 3-newszilla.xs4all.nl Priority: 50 S <-Strict MSG ID Direct enabled in all of them. What I observed: I wanted to download something from a.b.dvdr. It gets the headers from astraweb or demon (newszilla doesn't ha...