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Re: ietf-nntp Re: nntp-extensions draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt

Nat Ballou <NatBa@microsoft.com> Tue, 17 December 1996 20:15 UTC

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From: Nat Ballou <NatBa@microsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Re: nntp-extensions draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 12:10:39 -0800
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> From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>
> To: Nat Ballou <NatBa@MICROSOFT.com>om>; nntp-extensions@academ.com;
ietf-nntp@academ.com; Brian Hernacki <bhern@netscape.com>
> Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Re: nntp-extensions draft-ballou-nntpsrch-00.txt
> Date: Tuesday, December 17, 1996 11:49 AM
> 
> > ... 
> >  o seems like it's trying to hard to be IMAP
> 
> This is a feature.  If NNTP SEARCH has gratuitous incompatibilities with
> IMAP4, I suspect there will be a lot of opposition.  The reader subset of
> NNTP and IMAP4 are trying to solve the same problems, so they should be 
> solved in the same way as much as possible.
> 
> I think Nat has exactly the right idea -- take IMAP's SEARCH command,
> remove the stuff that doesn't apply to NNTP, then add the cross-group
> search using a syntax that could be added to IMAP4 via an extension.  Do
> it that way, and you don't have to fight the character set battle or
> address any of the other problems that IMAP has already solved.

Could not have said it better myself.

Nat

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