Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.toronto.edu!ietf-nntp-distribution-owner Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 11:24:40 -0400 From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) Message-ID: <9106251524.AA16089@tsx-11.MIT.EDU> Original-To: Rich Salz Original-Cc: ietf-nntp@turbo.bio.net, lear@turbo.bio.net, sob@tmc.edu References: Rich Salz's message of Tue, 25 Jun 91 09:29:07 EDT, <9106251329.AA12169@litchi.bbn.com> Subject: Re: should batch/ibatch/image/et al apply to the article command? Reply-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu Address: 308 High Street, Medford, MA 02155 Phone: (617) 395-0154 Newsgroups: list.ietf-nntp Distribution: list Sender: list-admin@cs.toronto.edu Approved: list.ietf-nntp@mail.cs.toronto.edu Lines: 20 From: Rich Salz Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 09:29:07 EDT >NEWNEWS and ARTICLE were really invented for news readers, not news >transfer This is wrong. There are servers out there that use NEWNEWS. Indeed. Can anyone name a _news_reader_ that uses NEWNEWS? As far as I can tell, it's only used by people who are too lazy to set up a real news server. As Rich Salz mentions in another message, NEWNEWS is also a good way of raping the victim host and sending its performance to hell, since it's fairly inefficient in the way it's implemented. Is there a good reason to even keep NEWNEWS in the spec? I would love to see it go... at the very least, nntpxfer should be removed NNTP distribution. - Ted P.S. This is one of my pet peeves. Can you tell? :-)