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Re: ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available

Ben Polk <bpolk@netscape.com> Wed, 02 October 1996 21:31 UTC

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From: Ben Polk <bpolk@netscape.com>
Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:09:23 -0700
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At 01:43 PM 10/2/96 -0700, Brian Kantor wrote:
>NEWNEWS should remain.  It is needed for some implementations of the
>"pull" ("inhal", "suck") style of newsfeeds.  Those are a minority,
>but should not be neglected.  I suggest that it be an optionally-
>available command, which if the site does not wish to implement,
>returns some 5xx code as "not available" rather than  "unknown".

This sounds right to me.

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