usenetserver and XPAT

jpf · Post by **jpf** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:03 pm

I just signed with usenetserver as the new pricing is attractive and astraweb has been hit & miss all the time I've used them.

I read some posts that they now accept searches on MSG-ID.
Does anyone know if that means that usenetserver can be treated the same as other servers that support XPAT? i.e. the ##<newsgroup> stuff is no longer required?

I'm also thinking that the indexing services are making XPAT redundant as the least processing intensive way of searching news servers.

Thanks

alex · Post by **alex** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:18 pm

i hope so (in fact i'm very unsure given the long history of their non-compliant nntp protocol interpretation), if you can download imported headers with newspro (e.g. from alt.binaries.nl) that don't present in other newsgroups they have fixed it.

alex · Post by **alex** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 3:37 pm

i've just got an email from usenetserver, they tell me their software vendor had fixed the issue and now they support retrieving by message-ids and xpat. so the ## workaround is not needed any more.