ietf-nntp NEWNEWS deprecation.

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Ade Lovett said:
>>> Anti-NEWNEWS:
>>>     INN is crap.
>> That's not really necessary, is it?
> Probably not.  A better wording would be:
> 	"The algorithm used for NEWNEWS in both INN and the reference
> 	 implementation is something of a resource pig, and as such,
> 	 administrators of those sites would really rather lose
> 	 the command, in the absence of a better way..."
> Saying that a concept should be deprecated simply because one particular
> implementation sucks is just plain wrong.  That's the raison d'etre
> for software engineers.

Exactly.

[This is *aDe* telling me how to be polite ? demon.service would never
believe it :-]

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