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From: "Relf"  <Usenet@Jeff-Relf.Me>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 08:07:17 -0700 (Seattle)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Try BlockNews and/or UsenetNews again, an hour later.
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You (DFS) replied ( to me ):
> > I list MessageIDs (100 at a time), starting from the highest Article Number,
> > until I find one of the 10 MessageID "bookmarks" I've saved.
> 
> I used to do head and body commands (via Python nntplib), but they don't 
> work very well lately.  The 'article' command is pretty quick, though.
> info = news.article(artID)  artID = info[0]  msgID = info[1]  msg = info[2]

Yes, instead of "head" and "body", I use the "article" command.

> a minute ago, from blocknews:
>     211 1795999 899518 2695516 comp.os.linux.advocacy
> 
> But blocknews recently screwed up their article numbering,
> and there are a lot of gaps in the sequence, 
> so there aren't 1795999 articles available on their server.

At times, blocknews is missing some articles and such;
some seconds later, they're back.

My code actually checks that blocknews has the 10 MessageIDs
that makes up my "bookmark", in the order expected;
if it doesn't, it pays to try again later.