ietf-nntp Article concepts

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:
> Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> Am I right in supposing that the Message-ID header is the _only_ one
>> that NNTP needs to parse and dissect in detail?

> You mean other than Newsgroups: and Control: and X-PGP-Sig: ?

NNTP, as a protocol, doesn't have to parse any headers.  A news server has
to parse a lot of headers (at the very least, all of the headers in
overview), but that's not something governed by the NNTP protocol.

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