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