Re: [leafnode-list] fetchnews won't retrieve bodies

[krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cornelius Krasel)]

Joerg Dietrich wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:15:33PM -0700, holtzm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > problem. I can connect with fetchnews, download headers (delaybody=1), and
> > 
> > May  1 08:52:09 localhost fetchnews[708]: comp.os.linux.misc: marked
> > bodies 68
> > May  1 08:52:10 localhost fetchnews[708]: comp.os.linux.misc: Retrieving
> > body <slrn8gg25r.g0.Faux_Pseudo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> failed. No response
> 
> This indicates that your upstream didn't respond with 222 to the
> BODY command. It would be interesting to see a debug log.

I have been told that there are ISPs which disable the ability to retrieve
articles (or headers or bodies) by message id from their servers. I don't
think there is an easy way of circumventing the problem.

--Cornelius (still on holidays :-).

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