ietf-nntp DRAFT summary of IETF 49

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Jan 10 14:51:57 PST 2001


Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> So basically you're advocating outlawing any implementation that uses
>> two separate programs to handle feeds and reading connections.

>> Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

> Just getting back to RFC977 :-)

Given that the author of RFC 977 himself has already said that's a bad
idea, why are you doing that?  What's the justification for putting more
weight in RFC 977 than in very widespread existing practice?

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



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