[NNTP] Misc changes

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Tue May 3 01:15:47 PDT 2005


Russ Allbery said:
> > Making NEWNEWS a separate capability is fine. But is NEWGROUPS useful
> > without NEWNEWS (and vice versa)? It seems to me that they belong in a
> > single bundle.
> 
> I don't see much relationship between them at all, so I'm not quite sure
> what to say.  I've never used a news reader that uses NEWNEWS, and pretty
> much every news reader I've used uses NEWGROUPS.
> 
> NEWNEWS is not particularly useful without at least ARTICLE, but the
> feeling on the list is to not worry about that and just make it a separate
> capability, at least as I judge consensus.

Okay. NEWNEWS separate, NEWGROUPS as part of READER.

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