ietf-nntp replacing ARTICLE

[Mario Valente]

At 10:28 05-08-1997 -0700, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
>>   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.
>
>

  I wasnt talking about reading: thats NNRP. I'm talking about propagation
 of articles between servers.

  And the redesing isnt substantial: its just stating that instead of an
article
 being sent fully when propagated, only the headers should be sent.

  C U!

  -- Mario Valente