[NNTP] Misc changes
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Mon Apr 25 10:09:35 PDT 2005
Clive D W Feather <clive at demon.net> writes:
> Russ Allbery said:
>> 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.
Yeah, but it's really not the same; that at least is limited to a single
group, so you can use something like sendfile and you're mostly just
eating bandwidth.
> I don't like the idea of making NEWNEWS optional, but I'll leave it to
> you to make the final call.
Well, right now it looks like a rough consensus to me, modulo your
concerns. If anyone other than Clive dislikes giving NEWNEWS its own
capability (and hence making it optional), please speak up; if not, I'm
going to say that there's a consensus to do so.
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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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