[NNTP] Changes from RFC 977 / RFC 2980

[Charles Lindsey]

In <4284E8D9.5000504 at oceana.com> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>Changes from RFC 977:


>-  wildmat format standarized [section 4]

Which allows some new usages (involving ',', for example) in places where
the old wildmats would not have done so.


>-  4 digit years allowed for NEWGROUPS and NEWNEWS commands
>    [sections 7.3 and 7.4]

No distribution parameter to NEWNEWS.

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