ietf-nntp "Common NNTP Extensions" document updated

[Tom Hughes]

In message <199712011648.LAA26314 at mail.cis.ohio-state.edu>
          Dave Barr <barr at cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

> In message <19971201162803.00397 at oaktree.co.uk>, Jon Ribbens writes:
>
> > I really can't see how anyone can seriously propose that parts of such
> > a protocol can be removed with no warning. How on earth are people
> > supposed to write RFC-compliant software if tomorrow someone might
> > suddenly change the RFC so that their software is no longer compliant?
> 
> That's how standards work.

No it isn't. It's normal to deprecate something for at least one
revision of the standard before you actually remove it.

Tom

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