ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available

Wed Oct 2 14:09:23 PDT 1996

At 01:43 PM 10/2/96 -0700, Brian Kantor wrote:
>NEWNEWS should remain.  It is needed for some implementations of the
>"pull" ("inhal", "suck") style of newsfeeds.  Those are a minority,
>but should not be neglected.  I suggest that it be an optionally-
>available command, which if the site does not wish to implement,
>returns some 5xx code as "not available" rather than  "unknown".

This sounds right to me.