ietf-nntp OVER and HDR parameter comments

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> Yes, but if the client is going to fetch the header itself via thousands
> of HEAD commands, that will eat bandwidth.  It comes down which is
> cheaper.  I'm guessing that server CPU is cheaper than bandwidth, but I
> could be completely full of shit.

Clients don't do this in large numbers, though.  I think the more common
case is that the client uses HDR to support some optional search feature
and if not available, just doesn't offer that feature.

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