Re: 6.16 Xref (was: Various draft problems)

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From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 09:47:20 CDT


Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> noted:

> Xref is a major wart, yes, but generalizing it doesn't make it any less of
> a wart and if anything just encourages people to develop more warts.
> There shouldn't be transport-specific headers in news articles in the
> first place if it can possibly be avoided; Xref could have lived just fine
> in overview had XREPLIC or something like it won over Xref slaving as a
> method of replication.

Absolutely. It would be highly desirable to have that functionality in
the protocol for several reasons.

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   -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me


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