From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 05:13:00 CDT
Hi Charles,
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) wrote on 02.09.01 in <GJ1DDx.Ey8@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>:
> 1. 'mvgroup' does at least the same as 'newgroup'.
>
> 2. In addition, it SHOULD prevent injection of new articles to oldgroup (at
> servers that honour it at all, of course).
>
> 3. It SHOULD result in a delayed 'rmgroup' (Curt wanted that down to MAY,
> but Clive seeed happy with SHOULD - it could be discussed further).
MAY or SHOULD NOT; hierarchy admins should send rmgroups as usual.
> 4. Servers MAY redirect articles from oldgroup so that their users see
> them in newgroup. That might or might not include articles already
> received before the mvgroup.
>
> 5. If (4) is done, headers (esp. Newsgroups) MUST NOT be changed, except
> for Xref (for which servers may do whatever they think is best - either
> oldgroup or newgroup or both).
YES.
MfG Kai