ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available

[Nat Ballou]

> From: Brian Hernacki <bhern at netscape.com>
> To: nntp-extensions at academ.com; ietf-nntp at academ.com
> Subject: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available
> Date: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 3:26 PM
> 
> 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.

Interesting proposal.  I have a few questions.  If many people access
news via IMAP, how does the SEARCH functionality described here
get exposed - as IMAP capabilities?  Is there another IMAP proposal
related to this one?

Overall, it's not clear to me how IMAP SEARCH relates to this SEARCH.
Will NNTP temporary SEARCH newsgroups suddenly appear as mailboxes on 
the IMAP side?  How much of the IMAP mailbox semantics carry over to 
these temporary SEARCH newsgroups?  What about user properties such as
SEEN, DRAFT, ANSWERED - does that exist in only IMAP or both stores?

It seems a simpler approach would be to carry over a simplified
IMAP SEARCH to NNTP - minus search criteria involving per user
properties, and then build from there - rather than adding rich SEARCH
to NNTP and re-writing IMAP SEARCH.

Comments?

Nat