From: greg andruk (gja@meowing.net)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 14:38:10 CDT
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <3D951384.3010102@alex.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>>Considering that newsgroup components are really tags that
>>identify a part of the path from the root of the newsgroup
>>hierarchy, there is a possible approach that avoids the
>>various problems with the alternatives discussed to date. I
>>envision something like the following:
[something not too far from what was introduced back in 1997 or so]
> So you want to introduce a protocol that does not exist anywhere yet,
It's documented, exists on the Microsoft and Sun news server products,
and is trivial to add to most servers.
> that is incompatible with current usage,
Outlook Express and Netscape 4.x have supported it for ages.
> that needs an additional feature in NNTP
Yep.
> and an upgrade to all user agents,
As above, a large portion of the installed base already has it.
> and which is going to confuse the
> hell out of users whose agents have not been upgraded and who see
> newsgroups mentioned in the texts of articles that do not correspond to
> what they see in their Newsgroups-headers.
That doesn't happen in the existing implementations.
> Yes, the UTF-8 idea suffers from some of those problems too, but not
> on that scale.
Except for the existing practice part, of course.