Download articles by msg-id direct

idiot · Post by **idiot** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:19 am

Can articles be downloaded by msg-id direct if the newsgroup has been specified as a compact binary. I have several servers that I can download by msg-id direct but will not allow downloads as a server under the compact binary.

dengle · Post by **dengle** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:49 am

I believe some news hosts had issues with how downloads were requested when using the compact binary format. Who is your news provider?

idiot · Post by **idiot** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:54 am

News provider is not the problem - Easynews. Even ISP news works ok (just poor retention). But I use freenet.de news servers and cannot get them to d/l from compact binary newsgroups.

alex · Post by **alex** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:52 am

msg-id direct and compact binary is about the same method of download as to article bodies, in both cases article numbers are not known and newsgroup is known, so from the server side it appears exactly the same.