Size of Newsgrouppostings with nntplib

[Stephan Hohe]

Hi,

I wrote a python skript to generate some newsgroup-statistics. I use the 
NNTP object in module nntplib to connect to the newsserver and recieve 
interesting message-headers useing the xhdr method. Now I'm searching for 
a way to recieve the size of the postings. The only thing I found is the 
xover method, witch submitts many informations, including the article 
size in bytes. Is there a way to recieve the article size without loading 
all the additional informations submitted by xover?

Thanks,
Stephan