[NNTP] [2501] Reader commands in transit servers and vice-versa

[Russ Allbery]

Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

> I agree in pricipal, but is a transit-only server which allows "suck"
> feeds a common enough case where a "NEWNEWS" argument to the "TRANSIT"
> capability would make sense?

I've never heard of such a beast.  I haven't ever done an exhaustive
survey of news software, but I've never heard of a server that implements
NEWNEWS but not GROUP, ARTICLE, etc.

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