Re: ABNF nits

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <87y72ldle6.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Russ Allbery <rra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>"Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


>> I also note that there is a "Restriction on usage" header in the RFC
>> 4288 template, and it might be useful to say that news-groupinfo and
>> news-checkgroups were only for use in newsgroup control messages (in
>> which case the "Intended usage" header should say "LINITED USE").

>I don't see a need to limit either to newsgroup control messages.  They're
>both  outside of that context (news-checkgroups more so,
>admittedly).  However, I don't feel strongly about news-groupinfo; if
>people think it's sufficiently weird that it doesn't make any sense to use
>it outside of control messages, I'm willing to make that change.  I feel
>more strongly that news-checkgroups is appropriate in a much wider variety
>of situations.

Yes, I take your point about possible use of news-checkgroups in regularly
posted articles in *.annouce groups. It's no big deal, because the
introductory text already present indicates that control messages are the
primary intended use for both of these.

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