ietf-nntp "Common NNTP Extensions" document updated

[Charles Lindsey]

In local.nntp "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal at xnet.com> wrote:

>Ease of administration in a customer setting. Instead of providing an
>ISP-dictated feed over a static link, NEWNEWS makes it possible for a feed
>provider to say "these are the groups you are allowed to retrieve, go
>ahead and pull whatever you want from them", and the customer now has the
>freedom to make adjustments in real time to their own feed, eliminating
>the overhead of maintainance by the provider, and giving more control to
>the customer. Plus, the need for a static link is eliminated, making ISDN
>(or even analog dialup) news feeds a possibility without needing to bring
>UUCP into the picture (or some other batching scheme).

Yes, that is exactly how I download my own feed.

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