[NNTP] AD guidance on NNTP i18n issues

[Russ Allbery]

Ruud H G van Tol <rvtol at isolution.nl> writes:
> Charles Lindsey schreef:

>> it would  be quite infeasible to expect NNTP implementations 
>> to recognise that two newsgroup-names were in fact alternative 
>> 'spellings' of the same newsgroup.

> Aliasses would be nice. In that way a newsgroup can have 
> more than one name, so also more than one variant of the 
> same name.

This is an extension that I think would be worthwhile to standardize at
some point (including the control messages to create the aliases).  I
think most of the work for handling it is on the USEFOR side, but there is
some work on the NNTP side as well.

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