[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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