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

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

>> 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

Once again, I have never heard of such a beast.  Do you have a pointer to
such an implementation?

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