From: Andrew Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 18:20:11 CDT
>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 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 :-) ).
Russ> Only after the = flag in active is standardized, which doesn't
Russ> belong in the current NNTP draft IMO. It's a great candidate
Russ> for an extension after the base standard is published.
Personally I'd need an awful lot of convincing before I even considered
supporting the =group functionality in a server.
-- Andrew.