From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 23 1999 - 08:37:39 CDT
In <87yadypwkw.fsf@slip-32-101-160-34.ma.us.ibm.net> greg andruk <meowing@banet.net> writes:
>Yes, in the NNTP archives I saw a remark from one of 977's writers
>that if they had their own way, the parameter wouldn't have been
>there. However, in at least one private implementation and now INN,
>there is NOV-based NEWNEWS which suggests an obvious solution to the
>problem of digging through all those headers. I haven't been
>following the NNTP group very closely; how far along are they? Would
>there still be time to keep that option from being killed?
Things move so slowly on the NNTP list that it is NEVER too late to do
anything. It is over a year since I pointed out that their wildmat text
was broken, and we are still waiting for Stan to fix it. So feel free...
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