Mac Forum / General / Networking / November 2004

When MT-NewsWatcher fetches extra headers, what news server command is
it using to do that?

I do some filtering on NNTP-Posting-Host in some groups, to color-code.
So, it takes an extra step and asks for these headers. What command is
it giving the news server?

My ISP, OptOnline, changed their news server today. Better retention,
nice, but... When NW gets headers using XOVER, those come in fine but
when it asks for other headers such as newsgroups or NNTP-Posting-Host
they stall and give no response. I want to tell the fine, fine folk at
OptOnline what command they have to fix in their swell new server. Which
BTW is:

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Mon, Nov 22, 2004 11:06 AM
NewsWatcher version 3.4
Server domain name: news.optonline.net
Server IP address: 69.28.186.124

200 Welcome to Optimum Online News Server (Tornado v1.0.6)

100 Legal Commands
 article [<messageid>|number]
 authinfo type value
 body [<messageid>|number]
 date
 group newsgroup
 head [<messageid>|number]
 help
 last
 list [active wildmat|active.times|counts wildmat]
 list [overview.fmt|newsgroups wildmat]
 listgroup newsgroup
 mode reader
 newgroups yyyymmdd hhmmss [GMT]
 newnews newsgroups yyyymmdd hhmmss [GMT]
 next
 post
 stat [<messageid>|number]
 xhdr field [range]
 xover [range]
 xpat field range pattern
 quit
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