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

Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Fri, 01 November 1996 07:35 UTC

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In-Reply-To: Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM> "Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available" (Oct 31, 2:42pm)
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On Oct 31,  2:42pm, Mark Crispin wrote:
} Subject: Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-
} 
} For example, I believe that NEWGROUPS is an artifact of a bygone day when it
} was desirable and practical to tell the user about new newsgroups.  But today,
} now that every day a hundred new alt.sex.gerbils.naughty.ha.ha.ha.ha groups
} pop up, I see no value in it.

It still works reasonably well if you shut off automatic newgroups for alt
groups ;-)  IMHO it beats trying to follow news.announce.newgroups for any
new groups that you might be interested in and then wondering when the
groups will get created locally.  Even if the server newgroups everything,
it would still be usable if your newsreader could be configured to filter
out anything that you weren't interested in (using wildmat patterns or
maybe something fancier that could be configured to get rid of the
verb.verb.verb groups).

			---  Truck

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