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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NEWGROUPS
Message-ID: <30015@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 02:25:17 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.074836.19931@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1991Mar15.002948.301@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Mar15.002948.301@news.arc.nasa.gov> mcmahon@tgv.com writes:
>The last time I looked at the RFC, I got the impression that NEWGROUPS was
>unreliable and that it was being "discouraged" in favor of comparing a current
>LIST command versus the "newsrc" file.  Is this no longer the case ?

It's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem: the first few nntp-based
newsreaders didn't need the newgroups command, so it wasn't ever fully
implemented, and because it wasn't fully implemented, new newsreaders
didn't use it.  And because new newsreaders don't need it, no one has
gotten around to making the newgroups command fully operational.

What we need is a pioneer.  Or something.
		- Brian