ietf-nntp FAQ Extension to NNTP

Stan Barber sob at academ.com
Sun Aug 25 07:46:36 PDT 1996


Jacob writes:
> NNTP at present uses non-standardized methods for images in messages
> and does not allow messages in HTML format or sending URL-s
> instead of the text of large binaries.

This is an imprecise statement. NNTP transmits news articles. News articles
have various methods for encoding information and is "non-standard". The 
format of news articles is described in RFC 1036. This is not an NNTP issue, 
per se. I think work on revising RFC 1036 would be great, but that is not the 
in the scope of work of the NNTP working group.


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