Quade wrote:"Test" is verifying whether the news server can deliver the partds of the file needed for download. If you have more than one server it tests across the servers just as if Newsbin was doing the download.
You can't check parity without downloading. It's a chicken or egg problem. You can't check the data without actually having the data on disk.
Well I'll call that B (from list above) so I'm not a lamer after all!
Thank you kindly for your time Quade, have a good one!