[NNTP] Consensus?

[Richard Clayton]

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In message <20050812234543.GB15722 at merlin.emma.line.org>, Matthias
Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> writes

>Has anyone brought forward a compelling reason for BIGNUM that outweighs
>the implementation complexity? Otherwise this is likely to be boycotted
>by NNTP software authors.

it allows software that is not bothering with recasting their database
format (and fixing up all possible parts of their code) to negotiate
with the server to correctly understand what the situation is -- and
thereby arrange to provide informative error messages : viz it permits
gracefulness, which is not to be sneezed at

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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