Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.com From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Suggested NNTP enhancements for user access control Message-ID: <1544@intercon.com> Date: 10 Nov 89 17:09:42 GMT References: <10095@ucsd.Edu> <1802@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Lines: 12 In article <1802@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: > One other thing that has been suggested are a TIME command to get the > server's current view of time. This would be a good thing, since the NEWGROUPS and NEWNEWS commands take their arguments in server-based time. Some of us (who, me?) try to deduce what time the server thinks it is by attempting to parse the initial banner line, but this is definitely a hack... -- Amanda Walker