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

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> A server has all of the creation dates available for the past decade.
> Everyone is happy if NEWGROUPS returns all the groups since any date, no
> matter how old.  But to avoid wasting bandwidth, the admin would like
> LIST ACTIVE.TIMES to only return groups created in the past year.

> I don't see why the network protocol specification would want to
> prohibit this behavior.

Hm.  I guess it doesn't really make much difference to me.

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