Additional searching in NNTP

"J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn@mystery-train.cu-online.com> Sun, 30 June 1996 20:48 UTC

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From: "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn@mystery-train.cu-online.com>
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Subject: Additional searching in NNTP
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:47:43 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199606282142.QAA13522@academ.com> from "Stan Barber" at Jun 28, 96 04:42:49 pm
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Stan Olan Barber <sob@academ.com> wrote:
>I certaiynly think this work would  be something of interest to folks wanting
>to add a set of searching capabilities to the NNTP environment. I have
>had some discussions with folks about this. One possible source of
>related effort is the work on directory indexing going on in IETF.

Does this mean that the strictly hierarchical arrangement of articles will
be maintained?

>However, this work is clearly towards an extension to NNTP, which is something
>that will follow the currently proposed work of refining RFC977, adding
>a mechanism for adding standard extensions and integrating extensions
>in common use.

This sounds promising, is the work going on in this mailing list or
somewhere else?  I'd be very interested in learning what ideas are being
discussed for the next generation of NNTP API.

Re: Welcome to ietf-nntp J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Re: Welcome to ietf-nntp Stan Barber
Additional searching in NNTP J.B. Nicholson-Owens