From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 16:27:56 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Actually, on further thought, you don't necessarily need a new NNTP
> feature. If your POST command is rejected, you can always use the LIST
> ARCHIVE command on the affected newsgroup(s) to find out why (and LIST
> ACTIVE is supposed to be especially efficient on 'single group' requests
> :-) ).
Only after the = flag in active is standardized, which doesn't belong in
the current NNTP draft IMO. It's a great candidate for an extension after
the base standard is published.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>