Re: ietf-nntp XHDR versus XPAT
Ben Polk <bpolk@netscape.com> Sat, 12 October 1996 20:53 UTC
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From: Ben Polk <bpolk@netscape.com>
Subject: Re: ietf-nntp XHDR versus XPAT
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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 13:46:08 -0700
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At 09:34 PM 10/12/96 +0100, USENET news manager wrote: >If we were planning an ideal world from scratch, it would be fine to say >that since one proposed command was a superset of another, the less powerful >one isn't needed. When the less powerful command has been around longer and >newsreaders expect to find it, I don't think it can be ignored and suggest >it needs to be retained (with the same considerations applying to it having >an X-name as for XOVER). I think John makes a convincing case that both XPAT and XOVER should be documented in the RFC. Stan?
- Re: ietf-nntp XHDR versus XPAT Ben Polk
- Re: ietf-nntp XHDR versus XPAT Rich Salz