ietf-nntp Re: draft-ietf-nntpext-streaming-00.txt

[Russ Allbery]

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

> (I actually rather like ASYNCFEED, personally.)

I don't mind it, but no one has ever called CHECK/TAKETHIS (which are very
old and well-established NNTP commands at this point) anything like
"ASYNCFEED."  They're universally called streaming.

I would prefer to just call the extension streaming, since that's what
everyone calls it already.  Failing that, TAKETHIS at least still matches
something that people call those commands.

If I saw a LIST EXTENSIONS output containing ASYNCFEED, not having been on
this mailing list, I would have no idea what it meant even if I'd run news
servers for years.

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