[NNTP] Misc changes

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue Apr 26 22:57:50 PDT 2005


Jeffrey M. Vinocur said:
> I agree with Russ here.  It's not a protocol issue by any means, and 
> since we all know that some servers aren't going to provide it no 
> matter what we say, client authors are still going to have to consider 
> that possibility (and work around it or accept reduced functionality).

Okay, sitting back and looking again I suppose that is the case.

* Should it be NEWNEWS or READER NEWNEWS (currently NEWNEWS is in the
  READER bundle of commands)?
* What do we want to do about NEWGROUPS (currently also in the READER
  bundle)?

> I would be fine with the document making an advisory statement to 
> implementors that encourages implementation of NEWNEWS (and explains 
> that it became optional only because, in the past, it was woefully 
> inefficient).

Would you care to do some words? I'm having trouble crafting something
right now.

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