ietf-nntp "Common NNTP Extensions" document updated

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Mon Dec 1 01:39:14 PST 1997


Jeff Garzik said:
> The second issue is NEWNEWS deprecation.  Programmatically, yes, it's
> easy to implement, but with the NNTP extensions proposed and in use, the
> same functionality is already present.

But many of those extensions *aren't* in place in many servers, and there's
no reason to expect them to be added. NEWNEWS is required by 977.

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