Atīest, if nodes discarded without forwarding messages they'd seenīefore it would at least double the amount of network traffic needed Without this use of the path header, though, every node would sendĬopies to every other node, which would send copies back, and etc. The article spreads out in a tree-like fashionįrom its point of origin to all the nodes and then stops spreading. It forwards it on to its peers, *except* the ones listed in theĪrticle's path header. Technical: avoid a message going endlessly in circles, and flooding > Of what use to either a news server or to me or to you is this path header?ġ. What you can tell from that list is which servers are 'read only' youĬan't post to them (or rather, you probably have to register in order to But you can be pretty confident that any news-server thatĬarries lots of groups you're interested in is probably as up-to-date as > How can I tell from that information which is the most updated or best
> If not, then why does Dialog present it? > Specifically, can/should I use that information to choose the one server > How am I supposed to *use* that information to choose the best newsserver? > The number of "new on server" messages varies hugely between servers. > this newsgroup which I need to ask a question on? > 40tude Dialog when I first try to get news for the very first time from > For example, how do I use this "news on server" information presented by How do I choose the best news server for this newsgroup in 40tude Dialog?
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