Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.toronto.edu!ietf-nntp-distribution-owner Message-ID: <9106251345.AA16121@funet.fi> Original-To: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) Original-Cc: Harri K Salminen , lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot), ietf-nntp@turbo.bio.net Subject: Re: should batch/ibatch/image/et al apply to the article command? References: Your message of Tue, 25 Jun 91 08:27:35 -0500. <9106251327.AA26305@tmc.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 09:45:22 -0400 From: Harri.Salminen@funet.fi (Harri K Salminen) Newsgroups: list.ietf-nntp Distribution: list Sender: list-admin@cs.toronto.edu Approved: list.ietf-nntp@mail.cs.toronto.edu Lines: 26 Your message dated: Tue, 25 Jun 91 08:27:35 CDT > I could see a GROUP command to set the group and then some kind of BATCH > command to transfer all the contents of a a group as one batch. This > minimizes the number of transactions and really looks like a TRANSPORT. > NEWNEWS/ARTICLE (as stated previously) is for newsreaders. I don't really care if the functionality is achieved with some new commands or extending newnews (newnews is preferred here for transport by some sites) but I care for the flexible functionality. Maybe there could be commands like "GROUP (filter-number or newsgroupname) start-time end-time LIST/BATCH/XHEADERS... " that could be used to restrict the scope of the old style more general commands? If the system doesn't support that you have to fetch more and throw away extranous information received. This way it might be easier to implement on existing systems and you could use Message-id's and batch style or article numbers and database searches on those restricted set of articles. How about this then? I still think it's sometimes usefull to allow reading style access to certain groups or time intervals of articles. > -- > Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Director, Networking > Olan uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob and Systems Support > Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine