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Re: ietf-nntp Three proposals

Petter Nilsen <pettern@icenet.no> Sun, 15 December 1996 10:33 UTC

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Date: 15 Dec 96 11:19:37 +0100
From: Petter Nilsen <pettern@icenet.no>
Subject: Re: ietf-nntp Three proposals
To: Brian Hernacki <ietf-nntp@academ.com>
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In article <32B0F363.799A@netscape.com>om>, bhern@netscape.com (Brian Hernacki)
wrote:

> It does seem a bit silly to rename and bust clients...or even encourgae
> folks to develop implementations that would bust existing clients (what
> I think will happen if we rename). But if we allow X-commands to become
> "real"..then we might as well scrap the idea of X-commands being "local"
> or "experimental". It shoudl be one way or ther other.

How about just keeping XOVER as an alias for OVER (same with other commands),
and encourage the use of the new non-X variants. If it is stated clearly that
this is an exception to the general rule for keeping backwards compatibility,

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