From: Clive D.W. Feather (clive@demon.net)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 02:16:02 CDT
Bruce Lilly said:
>> Bruce> * when a newsgroup is created, in addition to the usual
>> Bruce> information (description, moderated status, etc.) there
>> Bruce> is a new field (tentatively called rich-name).
>> proposed years ago and rejected - the extent of server changes
>> required is much more substantial than any of the other approaches (it
>> affects not only the server implementation but also the NNTP
>> protocol).
In addition, you will end up with user confusion as some people quote the
Newsgroups header and others quote the rich-name.
> It's possible to implement w/o protocol changes; there's no reason
> why the rich-name couldn't be returned as the last item in the
> reply to a GROUP command.
Wrong wrong wrong. That's a protocol change to NNTP. An incompatible one,
at that.
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