ietf-nntp "Common NNTP Extensions" document updated

[Jack De Winter]

At 09:21 AM 11/30/97 +0000, you wrote:
>In message <3480EDBC.1592486C at spinne.com>
>          Jeff Garzik <jeff.garzik at spinne.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.  Deprecating NEWNEWS would merely
>> remove redundancy.
>
>No it isn't. How do I fetch the last n days of news from a group
>without NEWNEWS?

Not arguing about how to do it, but can you give a couple of good reasons
why we might want to get the last <x> amount of time of news from a
newsgroup?

regards.
Jack
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