ietf-nntp NEWNEWS queries

[Richard Letts]

On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Richard Letts wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> 
> > 2. I raised this one previously, but noone seems to have answered.
> > 
> > Are control messages supposed to be reported by the NEWNEWS command if
> > the Newsgroups line of the control message includes a group named in
> > the newnews? The text is silent on this. INN does not supply these,

> I think it's because INN doesn't file them into the groups listed in the
> Newsgroups: line as well / including control. Looking at a cancel I issued

I've experimented a little by modifying art.c, cauing inn to file the
article in the newsgroup, instead of control. The results are a little
disatisfying, since the control messages have appeared in all of the
various newsreaders I have available.

There is no way for the nntp-sender to know if the nntp-reader is actually
a newsreading client, or someone using suck/slurp to pull news into a
local news-server. Changing the semantics of NEWNEWS seems like a bad
idea. It will cause users to start complaining about all the cancels
they are now seeing.

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