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Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available

Jack De Winter <jack@wildbear.on.ca> Fri, 01 November 1996 01:17 UTC

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To: Mike Macgirvin <MAX@netscape.com>, Jeff Coffler <jeffc@netmanage.com>
From: Jack De Winter <jack@wildbear.on.ca>
Subject: Re: nntp-extensions Re: ietf-nntp NNTP SEARCH extension internet-draft available
Cc: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, bhern@netscape.com, ietf-nntp@academ.com, imap@cac.washington.edu, Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, Nat Ballou <natba@ims.microsoft.com>, natba@microsoft.com, nntp-extensions@academ.com, Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
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>	There are a few weaknesses in using an IMAP client as a news client
>though. That's what Keith is asking about. Mostly a better way to do cross
>folder searches than the current prototype SCAN extensions, and better methods
>to discover new folders/newsgroups, although some of this is covered in
>different ways than the NNTP methods. ...I.e. a mailbox could be marked as
>"interesting", which is left to implementors to define; whereas NNTP allows an
>explicit date-based search for new folders. 

Is there anything we can do, or any work in progress to try and identify
these deficiencies in a standard way?

regards,
Jack
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