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

[Ken Murchison]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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.

OK, I'm all wet.  I assumed that a server which wanted to allow suck 
feeds but not full reading, was just a transit server with NEWNEWS support.

Never mind  ;)

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