ietf-nntp "Common NNTP Extensions" document updated

[Tom Hughes]

In message <3.0.1.32.19971202174653.009aa150 at lacroix.wildbear.on.ca>
          "Jack De Winter" <jack at wildbear.on.ca> wrote:

> 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?

I think I did so at the start of this thread...

Often when I subscribe to a new group (especially if I do so
as a result of hearing of an interesting ongoing thread) I wind
my last fetch date back a day or two to get some articles into
the group.

Equally if I come back from a week or two away I will cut my
feed down to just announce groups and do a fetch so that I get
everything in those groups, then restore the full feed and
windw the date back a day or two to get the last couple of
days news in all the other groups.

There are other reasons but those should be enough for now...

Tom

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