[ietf-nntp] Re: ietf-nntp Niggles

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> This seems to have been overlooked:

>>> Maybe you should be speaking of "Netnews articles" rather than "Usenet
>>> articles". Opinions are often divided as to how "Usenet" is defined. Usefor
>>> has taken the view that "Netnews" is the protocol, and "Usenet" is the
>>> particularly large and well-known instantiation of that protocol.

>> Okay, I'm happy to be consistent with this.

>> One query - we have "global Usenet system" in the text. Should this
>> change to "global Netnews system" or not.

> Any opinions?

When talking about the global system, it sounds to me like we're talking
about the instantiation of the protocol and Usenet is appropriate.

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