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Charles Lindsey chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Thu Mar 20 05:48:06 PST 2003


In <ylof47b6zo.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>I'd support this if we were starting from scratch, but at least INN and I
>bet a lot of other news software out there keys on the first character of
>the mode and already uses a bunch of modes other than those three, so it
>might be fairly hard to retrofit Usenet to follow this model.

Can you give examples of other modes that are currently provided by common
servers?

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