[NNTP] Extension docs snapshots

[Charles Lindsey]

In <20041202105933.GQ47177 at finch-staff-1.thus.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive at demon.net> writes:

>Nevertheless, as I've already said, that's not a reason to forbid it.

>If we do forbid it, ten years down the line some idiot will come up with an
>implementation that relies on it being forbidden. I'd rather not leave that
>hostage to fortune.

I can imagine an implementation that got screwed by relying on it being
allowed, but I would have thought it was provably impossible to rely on it
being forbidden (no, I am not going to construct the proof).

Generally speaking, I would have thought the term "hostage to fortune"
would be more applicable to allowing some capability that was provably
useless.

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