ietf-nntp Section 11.5 - NEWNEWS

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Nov 21 18:13:34 PST 2000


Andrew Gierth <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:
>  ["UTC" keyword in NEWNEWS/NEWGROUPS]

>  Russ> It's existing practice now; INN supports either.

> INN supports either since when? 2.3?

Yup, although I thought it was in 2.2.  But maybe not.

> (2.2 didn't last time I looked).  No existing client can send "UTC" and
> expect it to work; so it's not existing practice. The fact that one
> server supports it is irrelevent.

> _SPECIFICATIONS DO NOT CHANGE THE WORLD_.

It will with time.  Just leave it alone.  It's not broken.  So what if it
takes thirty years before clients can send it?  It's just not that big of
a deal.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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