[NNTP] Misc changes

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Apr 29 09:21:55 PDT 2005


Ade Lovett <ade at lovett.com> writes:

> 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.

I would prefer not to fiddle with NEWGROUPS at this point (it doesn't have
its own capability).  We have to stop at some point.

Okay, I wanted to see if anyone felt that way about NEWNEWS.  I'm happy to
have it be its own capability.

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



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