[NNTP] Misc changes

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk> writes:

> I don't like the idea of making NEWNEWS optional.

> I do like the idea of introducing a NEWNEWS capability (because we _know_
> some servers won't implement it, optional or not).

> Is there some way we can both have this cake and eat it? For example,
> could we say "The NEWNEWS command SHOULD be provided"?

I have kind of a bleh feeling about that, since we don't say that about
other things that are even more core to the protocol (POST, for instance).

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