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Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Thu, 31 October 1996 18:08 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:04:17 -0500
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> While I like the idea of a single message access protocol, news and mail
> still seem different enough to me that I cannot envision using IMAP in
> it's current state as *the* reader protocol.

Can you give some reasons why you would want your newsreader to use
NNTP over IMAP if both were available?

Keith

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