[NNTP] Misc changes
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Tue Apr 26 11:45:23 PDT 2005
Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> I don't like the idea of making NEWNEWS optional.
> I do like the idea of introducing a NEWNEWS capability (because we _know_
> some servers won't implement it, optional or not).
> Is there some way we can both have this cake and eat it? For example,
> could we say "The NEWNEWS command SHOULD be provided"?
I have kind of a bleh feeling about that, since we don't say that about
other things that are even more core to the protocol (POST, for instance).
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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