[NNTP] Misc changes

Ken Murchison ken at oceana.com
Fri Apr 29 06:41:55 PDT 2005


Ade Lovett wrote:

> I also believe that it should be a capability in its own right (ie:
> 'NEWNEWS' instead of 'READER NEWNEWS') -- there's no intrinsic reason
> why the list of message IDs generated would be used for only reader
> purposes -- ditto for NEWGROUPS, whilst the primary reason is
> undoubtedly for client newsreaders, it's not solely a reader command,
> and thus should not be compartmentalized as such.

Agreed.  Didn't we use the same logic for making "POST" its own 
capability rather than an argument to "READER"?

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