Subj : Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbi
To   : Accession
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Nov 08 2025 08:14:09

-=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-

 > Yes, understood.  The "put" direction makes good sense to me.  I have a
 > question about the "get" side though - What causes the BBS to know to
 > pack up all the new messages into a QWK packet though?  Does just the
 > act of requesting <BBSID>.qwk cause that to happen?  I was thinking I'd
 > have to somehow "tell" the BBS to create the new QWK packet, and *then*
 > grab it with wget/ftp.

 Ac> I think either when you connect or when there is a new message(s),
 Ac> Synchronet creates the QWK packet and puts it in that location
 Ac> automatically. I'm not sure on exactly how it works, but it's there
 Ac> every time I grab it, and it's an updated packet each time.

Okay, cool.

 Ac> Rob would have to explain that better, but I'll just call it 'magic'.
 Ac> :)

He did explain it!  Thank you again.




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