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From: Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu>
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Efficiency of requesting by message-id vs group+number
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 07:49:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-22, Colin Macleod <user7@cmacleod.me.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for some guidance on the efficiency of requesting individual
> articles by message-id compared to group and article number.  For a server
> such as INN, does finding an article from its message-id impose extra load?
>
> I'm operating a web/usenet gateway at https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng/ .
> When I display a thread I need to get all the articles in it. I'm
> wondering about
> spreading the load of this across multiple nntp servers.  However they would
> have different article numbering, so I would need to request each article
> by its message-id.  Is this practical, or would it impose an unreasonable
> load on the servers?

It is reasonable to fetch articles by Message-ID.
NNTP's "NEWNEWS" command is designed to work that way.