ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available

[Brian Hernacki]

Below is the official notification I received today regarding an
internet-draft that Ben Polk (bpolk at netscape.com) and I
(bhern at netscape.com) submitted to ITEF proposing a full-text searching
extension to NNTP. There is an nntp-extensions mailing list
(nntp-extensions at academ.com) available for discussion and comments on
such extensions.

--brian
Netscape Server Engineering







A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories.                                                              

       Title     : NNTP Full-text Search
Enhancements                      
       Author(s) : B. Hernacki, B. Polk
       Filename  : draft-hernacki-nntpsrch-00.txt
       Pages     : 14
       Date      : 10/07/1996

This document describes a set of enhancements to the Network News  
Transport Protocol [NNTP-977] that allows full-text searching of news 
articles across multiple newsgroups.          
                             
This new search mechanism also allows search criteria to be saved into 
search profiles.   Articles  arriving on the server are checked against
the
profiles, and the articles that match are collected together for the 
client.                                              
                      
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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