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-=> Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

 DM>   Re: Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbi
 DM>   By: Gamgee to Accession on Fri Nov 07 2025 09:15 pm

 > 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 .qwk cause that to happen?

 DM> Yes, correct.

 > I was thinking I'd
 > have to somehow "tell" the BBS to create the new QWK packet, and *then*
 > grab it with wget/ftp.

 DM> No, it happens on demand. The *.qwk file that appears in the FTP
 DM> directory listing is just a virtual file. A "get" (RETR) of the file
 DM> actually signals the sbbs event thread to create the packet, on demand,
 DM> so there is a bit of delay before the file transfer actually starts
 DM> (which is fine).

Perfect.  Thank you for that explanation, Digital Man!




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