ietf-nntp The future of NNTP

Stan O. Barber sob at verio.net
Thu Jan 13 12:14:49 PST 2000


Henk, I think you are really referring to USENET here, not NNTP. .
> 
> The practical implementation could be as follow: Suppose there is a
> newsgroup rec.hobbyfarming.dairy which is devastated by messages that do
> not relate to the public of that newsgroup. Instead of starting up a RFD
> for splitting up the newsgroup in rec.hobbyfarming.dairy.unwantedgarbage
> and rec.hobbyfarming.dairy.asintended one should be able to start a RFD
> that calls for rec.hobbyfarming.dairy:moderatedbyme.

Newsgroup naming is not in the province of NNTP. That's a USENET thing and
something I believe the USEFOR working group really is handing. Having you been
following their work?



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