ietf-nntp draft-ietf-nntpext-base-17

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> I think the active file is for technical stuff, of interest to software
> and newsadmins. A normal user who wants to know what newsgroups are
> available to him should be using the newsgroups file (which is supposed
> to be the user-friendly version). Therefore it SHOULD (if present at
> all) include at least all the groups available to him on his server.

So just to clarify, you're in favor of declaring non-compliant currently
existing practice?  (Note also that essentially all newsreaders do not
currently work that way.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>