ietf-nntp draft-ietf-nntpext-base-17

[Charles Lindsey]

In <ylk7ekeiyq.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

>> I think the active file is for technical stuff, of interest to software
>> and newsadmins. A normal user who wants to know what newsgroups are
>> available to him should be using the newsgroups file (which is supposed
>> to be the user-friendly version). Therefore it SHOULD (if present at
>> all) include at least all the groups available to him on his server.

>So just to clarify, you're in favor of declaring non-compliant currently
>existing practice?  (Note also that essentially all newsreaders do not
>currently work that way.)

No, I am saying what I would _like_ the newsgroups file to contain in the
future. Hence the word "SHOULD", though I could live with "should".

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