ietf-nntp HDR parameter proposal

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Charles Lindsey wrote:

> In <20030324113725.GU45272 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:
> 
> >I'm suggesting that the commonest case after "anything" and "just the
> >base headers" is "just the base headers plus Xref", [...]
> 
> That is the commonest form of the overview.fmt, but I am sure it will not
> be commonest usage of the HDR command. Why should anyone particularly want
> to use HDR on a variant header like Xref?

Potentially to determine article numbers in other groups for crossposts?  
(Suppose a user wants to "catch up" a group without bothering to download
all the headers just to discard them, but wants to mark them read in all 
the groups they're posted to.)

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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org