Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.toronto.edu!ietf-nntp-distribution-owner Original-To: ietf-nntp@turbo.bio.net Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 11:44:34 -0400 From: rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Message-ID: <1991Jun25.154434.28456@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Sender: usenet@mp.cs.niu.edu Subject: Re: should batch/ibatch/image/et al apply to the article command? Newsgroups: list.ietf-nntp Distribution: list Sender: list-admin@cs.toronto.edu Approved: list.ietf-nntp@mail.cs.toronto.edu Lines: 18 In article <9106250014.AA25541@tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: >NEWNEWS and ARTICLE were really invented for news readers, not news transfer ARTICLE and HEAD can be very useful debugging tools. If NNRP is separated from NNTP, some primitive support would still be useful. Hosts that receive a feed with NNTP will probably not be in the NNRP permissions, but they should not lose the ability to manually select an occasional article to inspect it while tracing problems. During the recent flap over C news rejecting articles, it has been useful to occasionally fetch a rejected article for inspection so as to see what is wrong. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940