From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 18:33:54 CDT
Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 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.
I think you'd need some evidence that people actually use it for useful
things that would be cool to support, and all the discussion in the world
is unlikely to provide that evidence. I feel the same way about a lot of
the things people propose. That's why we need to get the base draft out
so that we have a working extension mechanism, because then stuff like
this can be advertised as an extension and used or not used depending on
whether it's available, and then people can actually start playing with it
and we'll have hard evidence on how useful it is.
Until then, this is all just idle speculation, really. That's why, in my
mind, it's so important to get the base standard out there so that stuff
that is and should be waiting for the base standard before proceeding can
get unstuck and out there for people to play with.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>