ietf-nntp draft-ietf-nntpext-base-17

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at on-the-train.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Two questions:
> (1) Is NEWGROUPS supposed to be consistent with LIST ACTIVE.TIMES? Is
> this a SHOULD or a MUST sort of thing?

I'd say it's a SHOULD thing.  Anyone have any objections there?

> (2) Can NEWGROUPS fail to return the entire list of groups even if given
> an "old enough" date?

Yes, it's the same data source as LIST ACTIVE.TIMES usually.

> You appear to be saying so. If so, do we want to discourage this?

I think it's the same situation as with LIST ACTIVE.TIMES.  I don't really
have a strong opinion.  Existing practice is generally that it will only
pick up the groups added since the server is built.

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