ietf-nntp replacing ARTICLE
John Gardiner Myers
jgmyers at netscape.com
Tue Aug 5 10:28:27 PDT 1997
> Since I only recently joined the mailing list I would like to pose a
> question,
> related to an idea of mine on the redesign of NNTP and Usenet: currently
> the RFC states that for a SENDME or ARTICLE request, the *entire* article
> should be sent. I have this idea whereby only the headers would be sent
> and stored and the body of the articles requested on demand. This would
> lead to changes in both NNTP and probably in the format of the messages
> themselves.
Instead of making substantial redesigns to the NNTP reader protocol, you
should consider simply migrating to reading Usenet through the IMAP
protocol.
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