ietf-nntp Selective download of MIME multipart/alternative in NNTP

[Brian Hernacki]

Alex Wetmore (Exchange) wrote:
> 
> Some sites (Carnegie Mellon University comes to mind) have clients read news
> using the IMAP4 protocol rather then NNTP.  This is an option elsewhere and
> could be used instead of extending NNTP.

I'd rather see folks improving NNTP than kludging IMAP to work for news.
NNTP was built for news. IMAP was not.

--brian
Opinions are mine, not Netscape's