[ietf-nntp] Re: ietf-nntp Niggles
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Tue Dec 16 12:43:30 PST 2003
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> This seems to have been overlooked:
>>> Maybe you should be speaking of "Netnews articles" rather than "Usenet
>>> articles". Opinions are often divided as to how "Usenet" is defined. Usefor
>>> has taken the view that "Netnews" is the protocol, and "Usenet" is the
>>> particularly large and well-known instantiation of that protocol.
>> Okay, I'm happy to be consistent with this.
>> One query - we have "global Usenet system" in the text. Should this
>> change to "global Netnews system" or not.
> Any opinions?
When talking about the global system, it sounds to me like we're talking
about the instantiation of the protocol and Usenet is appropriate.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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