ietf-nntp draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt

[Nat Ballou]

In order to clarify the discussion of adding search to NNTP, 
I (natba at microsoft.com) wrote up a draft and submitted it to the 
IETF (see attached).  This draft is more in line with IMAP search.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from NNTP and IMAP 
implementors on the pros and cons of the different NNTP search
proposals.

Thanks,

Nat

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        Title     : NNTP Full-text Search Enhancements 
        Author(s) : N. Ballou
        Filename  : draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt
        Pages     : 8
        Date      : 11/18/1996
 
This document describes a set of enhancements to the Network News Transport
Protocol [NNTP-977] that allows full-text searching of news articles in
multiple newsgroups.  The proposed SEARCH command supports functionality
similar to the [IMAP4] SEARCH command, minus user specific search keys
(i.e., ANSWERED, DRAFT, FLAGGED, KEYWORD, NEW, OLD, RECENT, SEEN) and minus
search keys based on headers that do not exist in news (i.e., CC, BCC, TO).
 
The availability of the extensions described here will be advertised by the
server using the extension negotiation-mechanism described in the new NNTP 
protocol specification currently being developed [NNTP-NEW]. 
 
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