ietf-nntp HDR

[Russ Allbery]

Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> writes:

> Indeed, it seems that most clients out there simply assume that the
> overview is going to be in NOV format, when that is not necessarily
> guaranteed to be the case.

The OVER command being added in our draft is defined to return things in
NOV format.  I think that's the correct approach.  The intention was never
to have the order be user-configurable; see the original C News overview
documentation.

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