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From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: proposal for protocol modification
Message-ID: <2603D65E.22118@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 90 18:41:34 GMT
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sob@lib.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:

>I will put it on the list of proposed enhancements.
>Sounds like a good idea to me, but I don't think it will require
>modificiations to the protocol, per se. (e.g. NPOST), just some
>reexamination of the ack messages to POST.

You're right -- I didn't examine the current protocol closely
enough.  Brian Kantor explained to me how you can use '100' response
messages between the POST ant the POST response to get the desired
behavior.

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