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Re: ietf-nntp Initial draft FINALLY available

"William H. Magill" <magill@isc.upenn.edu> Thu, 03 October 1996 21:12 UTC

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>   From: bpolk@netscape.com (Ben Polk)
>   Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:09:23 -0700
>
>   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.

Sounds perfectly rational.... nothing worse than the being told that
something is unknown, when it is really only unavailable.

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