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RE: ietf-nntp NNTP doubling of starting periods

Michael Nerone <mnerone@fibrcom.com> Fri, 15 November 1996 18:55 UTC

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From: Michael Nerone <mnerone@fibrcom.com>
To: 'IETF NNTP Mailing List' <ietf-nntp@academ.com>
Subject: RE: ietf-nntp NNTP doubling of starting periods
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 12:09:22 -0600
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Aww...but that might save us 1 byte out of every few hundred articles!!! That's worth breaking a few thousand servers, isn't it?!? <g>

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Subject: 	Re: ietf-nntp NNTP doubling of starting periods 

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>From: Mailer-Daemon
>To: Don Read
>Subject: Re: ietf-nntp NNTP doubling of starting periods
>Date: Friday, November 15, 1996 12:49AM
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>> RFC 977 specifies the following for lines that start with a period (.)
>> > [...]
>> Is this still in use? It seems unnecessary to distinguish lines that

<snip>

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>The current scheme provides transparency.  Senders add a dot to every
>line that begins with a dot.  Receivers remove the initial dot from
>any line that begins with a dot.  It's simple, it works, and anyone
>can understand how to do it right.
>
>Changing the spec can only lead to confusion and breakage.
>It's not broken, so don't fix it.
>

I agree !!!!

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