[mew-int 01296] Re: leafnode-2 doesn't give out default-article to mew newsreader

[clemens fischer]

Joerg Dietrich <joerg at example.com>:

> Mew tried to retireve the article by Message-ID. This is
> relatively unusual for newsreaders, most try to retrieve articles
> by article number. In principle both should work equally well,
> but the check whether a pseudo-article is requested is only made
> when an article is requested by article number. This is a bug in
> fopenart() in nntpd.c

ah!  makes sense.  i retried the same actions manually with telnet
and wondered why i couldn't repeat this behaviour with arbitrary
newsgroups.

  clemens