ietf-nntp FAQ Extension to NNTP

Rich Salz rsalz at osf.org
Sat Aug 24 09:23:22 PDT 1996


>MIME has an external reference format,

NNTP does not rely/use/need/refer-to MIME.

I think we should keep it that way.

This does not mean that the "messages" returned by GROUPDATA
cannot refer to such things.  If all newsreaders knew the external-body
type.
	/r$



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