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Re: ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available

James Fidell <james@corp.netcom.net.uk> Wed, 02 October 1996 07:59 UTC

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From: James Fidell <james@corp.netcom.net.uk>
Message-Id: <199610020754.IAA21564@corp.netcom.net.uk>
Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available
To: Ben Polk <bpolk@netscape.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 08:54:50 +0100 (BST)
Cc: ietf-nntp@academ.com
In-Reply-To: <19961002034319.AAA9735@bpolk.mcom.com> from "Ben Polk" at Oct 1, 96 08:43:19 pm
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Ben Polk wrote:

> At 02:59 AM 9/30/96 CDT, Stan Barber wrote:
>
> >            12.4 NEWNEWS
> 
> Do we have to keep this? It really doesn't work in a practical way in
> some of the widely used NNTP implementations.

I don't believe that it should be removed just because some NNTP
implementations don't support it very well.  NEWNEWS is very commonly
used here in the UK to generate a list of new articles for download and
off-line reading (because of the prohibitive cost of on-line reading).

A number of people have also done work to dramatically improve the
performance of NEWNEWS for exactly this reason.

Are there equivalent alternatives ?

James.
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