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

[Charles Lindsey]

In <871xe8k12b.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>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.

For a pure suck feed using NEWNEWS, you need NEWNEWS, DATE and ARTICLE.
You might find a use for HEAD and BODY as well. But you would have no use
at all for GROUP, NEXT, POST, and indeed most other reader commands

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