nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available

[Brian Kantor]

> I think the original point that was made is that NNTP was designed
> originally for news transfer, not reading. 

That is not true.  I don't know where this oft-repeated error originated,
but it's wrong.

We designed the NNTP protocol to provide news reading services to diskless
workstations.  Transfer was added much later in the design.
	- Brian