[NNTP] Misc changes
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at demon.net
Mon Apr 25 01:51:08 PDT 2005
Russ Allbery said:
>> (2) Make POST a separate capability. I think this was agreed.
> Yes.
Done.
> The other item that was raised was adding a capability for NEWNEWS. I
> agree with the feeling that servers should really provide it, but given
> the number that choose not to, maybe we shouldn't be dictating policy in
> the standard to quite that degree. It does have the problem that a
> syntactically proper NEWNEWS command can take a huge amount of resources
> without any realistic way of reducing those resources:
>
> NEWNEWS * 19700101 000000 GMT
>
> something that I don't believe is shared by any other mandatory command.
I'm not sure that's really unique; after all, a HDR or OVER on a large
group can also produce huge amounts of output.
I don't like the idea of making NEWNEWS optional, but I'll leave it to you
to make the final call.
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