ietf-nntp Draft 17 pre-2

Clive D. W. Feather clive at on-the-train.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 27 09:08:05 PST 2003


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In message <yladgkruka.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery 
<rra at stanford.edu> writes
>I think we should bypass this entire debate and just not standardize LIST
>OVERVIEW.FMT at all.  The information that it provides isn't very useful,
>and worse is deceptively useful (in other words, it looks like it's more
>useful than it actually is).

It's the only way to find out all of what is in the overview database - 
using OVER on any given article doesn't tell you that, it only tells you 
what fields are in that article. So it does have some use.

[Haven't we done this before.]

We could remove the legacy feature completely and just say existing 
servers are non-conforming. Or we could say that the first 7 lines can 
contain any old rubbish because the OVER command doesn't have a choice 
for the corresponding fields. Or we could even leave it as is; if we're 
going to worry about infelicities, I'd rather change LISTGROUP to use a 
different response to 211.

[Which reminds me, could we do something like require all future 
extensions to use 6xx for multiline responses? Or is that too far?]

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