NEWNEWS (was Re: ietf-nntp "Common NNTP Extensions" document updated)

[Petter Nilsen]

In article <34849FAA.3D4D1BD3 at spinne.com>, jeff.garzik at spinne.com (Jeff
Garzik) wrote:

>> Stop a minute and ask what causes "most admins to disable NEWNEWS"?

> You make a valid point; but in the context of what you have quoted above
> -- on the topic of common practices -- it is a common practice for many
> sites to have NEWNEWS disabled, so that should most definitely be
> mentioned in an NNTP common practices draft.

Yes, in that draft, but personally I don't like to see INN's lousy
implementation of NEWNEWS being used as an example of why NEWNEWS shouldn't be
in a new NNTP standard. INN is the reference implementation that should be
fixed, and with a decent NEWNEWS implementation, it would be safe to leave
NEWNEWS enabled in the default configuration, and then the situation would be
reverse with the common practice being the opposite.  Will this be the case
before the "common practices" draft is completed? :)

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