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

[Russ Allbery]

Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:

> I don't see the need. That's one possible policy, but not the only one.

> If you want to know which groups have arrived since a specific date,
> you use NEWGROUPS.

Yeah, it's not worth spending a lot of time on LIST ACTIVE.TIMES given
NEWGROUPS, which makes it largely irrelevant.  Not entirely, not enough to
really drop the command from the protocol IMO, but it's not a particularly
important NNTP command.

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