ietf-nntp Dropping the Distribution option from Newnews?

Brian Hernacki bhern at netscape.com
Thu Feb 19 08:55:39 PST 1998


Jonathan Grobe wrote:
> 
> There is currently a thread going on in news.software.nntp about
> the newnews command. Apparently the Distribution option creates
> serious problems in implementing the command efficiently. Any thoughts
> on deleting this option?

Well, I imagine using NEWNEWS on the control group without being able to
filter based on distribution might be bad. Collabra servers use
distributions headers to differentiate between local and Usenet control
messages.

--brian



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